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	Evaluating the Performance Claims of Investment Approaches While all honest research helps to shed light on successful approaches, flawed research may be used to intentionally lead you astray.
	Four Basic Steps to Gauging a Firm's True Financial Position Four initial steps you can use to analyze a firm's financial statements.
	From the SEC: Micro-Cap Fraud Tips on how to recognize fraud schemes.
	Investing in Gray Matter: Evaluating a Firm's Human Assets If you want to buy shares in a company that depends primarily on brainpower, you need to make sure that those brains are going to stick around.
	An Investor's Guide to Corporate Insider Trading Activity Insider buying is much more significant than insider selling. Insiders may sell their shares for a variety of reasons. But typically insiders buy their shares on the open market for one reason--the stock is cheap!
	Navigating Through EDGAR: What to Look for on the SEC Web Site One of the most useful Web sites for investors, EDGAR contains required filings and forms of public corporations, with detailed financial disclosures.
	Taking the Spin Out of Earnings Announcements Public companies always want to put the best face on their quarterly financial results. But investors should not be distracted by excessive 'spin.' Tips to keep in mind when reviewing earnings announcements.
	The Basics: What is the Over-the-Counter Market? A look at securities not traded on an organized exchange as well as less-regulated OTC Bulletin Board and the unregulated Pink Sheets.
	The Big Picture: How to Decipher What the Market Is Saying A look at some key market indicators that provide a lens into how the market is behaving—and what it is saying right now.
	The Proxy Edge: Exercising Your Shareholder Rights Many investors receive the annual proxy statement and simply throw it in the trash. But that is throwing away a vote, and the right to keep management's interest in line with your own. How to get the most out of a proxy statement.
	What Steps You Should Take When Your Stock's Price Falls There are no simple rules that will tell you when to sell a stock, but an in-depth understanding of what economic, industry, and firm fundamentals drive the price will better equip you for making decisions.

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	YTD (%)	1-Yr (%)
Mutual Fund Portfolio	-5.0	15.6
Shadow Stock Portfolio	6.8	43.6
Data as of 6/30/2010

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