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This week's Mutual Funds and ETF stories
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Last update: 11:01 p.m. EST March 5, 2009
Don't miss these top money and investing columns:

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Market recovery could take years
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What stocks would Darwin buy?
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Searching for market survivors
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Fund investors want indexing

The Jewish people spent 40 years in the wilderness before reaching the Promised Land. Odysseus toiled at sea for 20 years until he saw Ithaca again. Disenchanted stock investors nowadays can only reflect on their own bewildering fate and wonder if and when their fortunes will turn.
Every odyssey has life-changing trials and tribulations. This bear market will influence baby boomers' investment ideals for the rest of their lives. Some may never return to stocks, others will tiptoe back with trepidation. People in their 20s and 30s, seeing how the bear has shredded their parents' fortunes, may also think twice before putting their own money into the market.

NOTE:the jewish people spent 40 years, disenchanted stock incestor now adays can onlyreflected.

Tales where the hero triumphs over adversity are enduring. But sometimes the hero takes a fall. More than a year into this downturn, investors are still unsure how their hard-luck story will end.
-- Jonathan Burton, assistant personal finance editor
INVESTMENT NEWS & TRENDS
Three to six years before investors recoup portfolio losses, advisers predict
Investment advisers are split on whether the U.S. economy will emerge from recession this year or next, but most say it will be three years and possibly almost six before battered investors recoup portfolio losses, according to a Charles Schwab & Co. survey.
See FundWatch.
Surviving a Darwinian market
What stocks would Charles Darwin buy? The pioneering British biologist might have made an unusually sharp stock analyst, dissecting financial statements and experimenting with forecasting models to determine which among the corporate species have the innate ability to adapt to hostile environments.
See Life Savings.
Defensive stocks are the best offense for bearish fund manager
As debate rages about how much longer the recession will last, David Pedowitz, managing director at investment firm Neuberger Berman, is concerned with a scarier question: whether it has even hit bottom.
See The Stockpickers.
Investors ditch market-beating attempts, settle for average returns
Mutual fund investors in 2008 yanked more money out of actively managed stock-funds than they put in for only the third time ever, and index-fund rivals took the spoils.
See full story.
Stock funds lose 8.7% in February
Mutual-fund investors, still reeling from heavy double-digit losses in 2008, took a further beating in February, with average stock-fund returns down 8.7% in the month.
See full story.
COMMENTARY
Protect your cash reserves with an insurance policy loan
It's controversial though important to protecting the liquidity of millions of investors. But an insurance policy loan is low-cost and you may be able to find positive carry at little risk to you.
See Bill Donoghue.
Fund investors may feel brunt of industry's troubles
What happens if a mutual fund company is having troubles that make your fund less competitive and raise questions about its management?
See Chuck Jaffe. End of Story

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