International Mutual Funds

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  • Where The Growth Is: Infrastructure

    A global fund manager explains his outlook.

  • Currency Jitters Spur Inflation Fears

    Large caps and Treasury Inflation-Protected Services are good positions in a worldwide inflationary environment.

  • Going Global Now

    Your clients still need international diversification, but navigating the world's investment opportunities has become trickier, to say the least.

  • Global High Performers

    A special report featuring Global High Performers based on growth, return to investors and future prospects.

  • The Fund World's Surprising Oasis of Calm

    Morningstar: Amid market turbulence and the threat of recession, emerging-markets bond funds surprisingly represent an oasis of calm.

  • Gulf Stocks Give Investors Taste of Future: Jane Bryant Quinn

    As Southeast Asian stocks have climbed and the economies of these countries have become more developed throughout the past 25 years, emerging-market investors should now shift their focus to the Middle East.

  • Marathon Opens an Office in Turkey

    Marathon Asset Management LLC opened its first office in Turkey.

  • Fund Times: Vanguard Plans Global Stock Index Fund

    Fund changes announced by Vanguard, TIAA-CREF, Turner and RiverSource.

  • Sovereign Sway

    As U.S. financial companies struggle with subprime-mortgage writeoffs, currently hovering at $400 billion, their plummeting stock prices have made them a hot SWF target.

  • The Lowdown on Sovereign Wealth Funds

    At $2.9 trillion and growing, sovereign wealth funds have been investing in Western financial companies for years, but only recently have they been flying high enough above the radar to attract attention from Washington.

  • Beijing's Inaction Unsettles Markets

    WSJ.com: Investors looking for relief from China's bear market have instead found a new reason to sell stocks: government inaction. The Shanghai Composite Index fell 4% 3668.90, putting the Shanghai index down 40% in the past five months.

  • ETFs Take Hit as Bear Collapse Stokes New Credit Fears

    WSJ.com: Exchange-traded funds tracking stocks around the world fell yesterday as the collapse of Bear Stearns Cos. and the efforts by the Federal Reserve to avert a potential run on banks stoked fresh credit fears. The broad-market SPDR S&P 500 ETF traded lower by more than 1%; the Dow Diamonds ETF initially dropped a similar amount but was up slightly by day's end as the Dow Jones Industrial Average bounced higher.

  • Darfur Outrage Spreads to Mutual Funds

    WSJ.com: Many mutual-fund shareholders this proxy season will be voting on a politically charged question: whether to discourage investment in companies doing business in Sudan, whose government is accused of abetting genocide.

  • 4 Smart Ways to Play the Sinking Greenback

    Here are four ideas for turning the dollar's decline into higher investment returns.

  • Exotic Stocks: Investors Flee, But Pros Don't

    WSJ.com: Fears of a U.S. recession and its potential impact on developing markets are spooking skittish small investors, but many professional money managers are getting more bullish on emerging markets.

  • Investors Flock to Foreign Bonds

    WSJ.com: Investors Flock to Foreign Bonds: Amid dollar weakness, funds offer exposure to other currencies with less risk than stocks. After embracing foreign-stock funds in recent years, investors are now starting to pay increasing attention to foreign-bond funds.

  • Morningstar Fund Manager of the Year Winners

    Find out who won the 2007 fund manager awards and look back on previous winners.

  • Diversifying Isn't Paying Off This Year

    WSJ.com: Overseas shares have suffered this year together with their U.S. counterparts, putting the plans of many individual investors to the test. Drawn by outsize returns and a desire to diversify their portfolios, Americans sent mountains of investment dollars abroad last year. Mutual funds that invest primarily outside the U.S. finished last year with $138 billion in net inflows from customers, according to the Investment Company Institute.

  • Banking on the Mideast

    WSJ.com: While its sovereign-wealth funds have provided money to strengthen the balance sheets of big banks, the Middle East is also providing salvation for investment bankers hit by the global liquidity crunch, with dozens redeployed there as banks seek revenue growth.

  • Canada Fund Rides Robust Economy

    WSJ.com: Maxime Lemieux, manager of $4.6 billion Fidelity Canada Fund, has put this country-specific portfolio on the map with consistent, chart-topping results and careful attention to risk. The fund returned 35% last year, trouncing its international multicap-core category average by almost 23 percentage points.