By Robert Barker
Each Friday morning in BW Online's Daily Briefing, you'll find Your Money, a column by Business Week personal finance specialist Robert Barker. It's devoted to you: How you not only can make more money but also how you can save that other precious asset, time. Whether it's mutual funds, stocks, your 401(k) plan, or taxes, Bob likes to get behind the big names and latest trends on Wall Street to find out what's really going on -- so you can become a smarter investor.
Have any comments, or topics you'd like to see Bob cover? Drop him a line at RBarkerBW@aol.com
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December

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Dec. 18 | |
The Reckoning: How the Column Did This Year
Table: The Reckoning, 1998
How To Be Your Own Investment Adviser -- Keep Reading |
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Dec. 11 | |
A Growth-Stock Picker Beats the Sophomore Slump
Letters to "Your Money" -- and Robert Barker's Response |
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Dec. 4 | |
Vanguard's Navigator Plus: Calculating the Here and Now |
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November

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Nov. 20 | |
When a Fund's Loss Makes You a Winner |
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Nov. 13 | |
A Chat with a Former SEC Fund Cop |
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Nov. 6 | |
How Irene Hoover Sailed Through the Small-Cap Slaughter
Table: Irene Hoover's Top 20 Picks |
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October

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Oct. 30 | |
Your Moolah and Your Mind: A Psychological Thriller
Four Little Tales -- from Gender to Brokers |
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Oct. 23 | |
Can "Spiders" Spin Strong, Fluid Fund Gains? |
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Oct. 16 | |
Longleaf Is Back in Business. Will the Market Follow? |
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Oct. 9 | |
Fund Fees Too High? Tell It to the Directors |
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Oct. 2 | |
Windsor's Charles Freeman: Navigating Stormy Seas |
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September

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Sept. 25 | |
Q&A: An Expert's Take on How Insiders Trade |
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Sept. 18 | |
Cruising the Munis with Thornburg's McMahon |
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Sept. 11 | |
Bear Market? Consider This Shopping List
Table: Small Caps on Sale |
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Sept. 9 | |
A Walk on the Global Side with Blair Boyer |
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August

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Aug. 28 | |
How Caldwell & Orkin Neutralizes Market Swings
Table: Caldwell & Orkin's Most Recently Disclosed Holdings |
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Aug. 21 | |
It's Time for Brokers to Tell All on Monthly Statements |
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Aug. 14 | |
Chuck Royce's Counsel on Small-Caps -- Patience |
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Aug. 7 | |
Acorn USA's Robert Mohn: Surviving the Small Cap Rout |
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July

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July 31 | |
Scudder's Millard on AT&T and the Large Caps |
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July 24 | |
Polaris Global Won't Be an Unknown Fund for Long |
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July 17 | |
A Peak at the Secrets of O'Shaughnessy |
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July 10 | |
Frontier's Jim Fay -- on the Bottom Looking Up |
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July 3 | |
A Talk with Phil Treick, The Year's Top Equity Fund Manager? |
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June

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June 26 | |
Is Price Volatility a Destroyer of Economies? |
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June 19 | |
A Chat with Morningstar's Rekenthaler: Advice and Vinegar |
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June 12 | |
For Growth Stocks, Peter Vlachos Looks Abroad |
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June 5 | |
Everybody Hates Union Pacific Stock. Should You? |
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June 4 | |
Oakmark's Herro on the Case for Foreign Stocks |
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June 3 | |
These Economic Hotshots Might Make a Bundle for Investors |
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June 2 | |
Why Monsanto and American Home Are Pooling Their Genes |
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May

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May 29 | |
Where Vanguard's Heavy Hitters Put Their Money |
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May 22 | |
J.P. Morgan: Targeting the Small Investor |
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May 15 | |
The Two Sides of Garrett Van Wagoner |
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May 8 | |
Q&A: Mid-Cap Bargain Hunter Wayne Archambo |
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May 5 | |
Lessons from Sylvan Learning Systems' Soaring Stock Price |
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April

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Apr. 24 | |
Real Fund-Expense Figures Get Easier to Find
Table: The Top-Yielding Money Funds...and the Most Efficient |
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Apr. 17 | |
A Talk with Small-Stock Maven Dick Gould |
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Apr. 10 | |
Your Fund's a Winner. Need to Retune the Portfolio? |
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Apr. 3 | |
These Cuba Funds Are Betting on the Embargo's End |
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March

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Mar. 27 | |
A Chat with a Hard-Working Growth-Stock Picker |
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Mar. 20 | |
Should Teletubbies Be in Your Portfolio |
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Mar. 13 | |
A Bond Index Fund? Vanguard's Volpert Tells Why |
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Mar. 6 | |
Tools for Telling If a Roth IRA Is for You
Table: Stalking Roth Info on the Web |
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February

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Feb. 27 | |
To Get in on This Deal, You'll Have to Hurry |
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Feb. 13 | |
A Small-Fund Family Makes a Big Splash |
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Feb. 6 | |
Missed the Boat on DEC? So Did Fidelity -- Big Time |
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January

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Jan. 30 | |
A Chat with Couch Potato Fund's Marc Gabelli |
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Jan. 23 | |
Mutual-Fund Facts from the Obscure to the Bizarre
Capital Gains and Restricted-Stock Grants: A Sweet Combo |
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Jan. 16 | |
Turner Midcap's McHugh: Out to Avoid Sophomore Slump
A Talk with T. Rowe Price's Brian Rogers |
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Jan. 9 | |
Can Ex-Janus Whiz Tom Marsico Do It Again -- on His Own? |
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