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Jim Dondero is a hunter who knows that you can't hit your target every time. But Dondero and Mark Okada, who co-founded Highland Capital Management, a Dallas asset manager known for…

Sixty is the new 40.  At least that's how some investors at or near retirement would like to think of their portfolio's asset allocation model and its potential returns. Mark…

Brad Ross knows investing. Before joining Dallas-based Pyxis Capital in June, the 52-year-old Denver native was head of sales and distribution for Kansas City’s Ivy Funds, which grew to $55 billion in…

Individual investors are putting more money into bank-loan funds, taking added risk in a search for higher yields and a hedge against inflation as the Federal Reserve vows to keep interest rates at near-record…

Stocks soared 6% last week on relatively low trading volumes, as continued short-covering helped the market put together two consecutive up weeks for the first time since early July. Though…

In this year's tumultuous stock market, mutual funds that follow alternative investing strategies have given investors some respite. During the July-August stock slide, alternative-investing categories such as currency funds, market-neutral…

The biggest structural change in 45 years to the health-care sector is creating opportunities in pharmaceutical stocks while pressuring health-care providers, says Highland's Michael Gregory. Mallory Horejs: My name is…

Not even a spectacular 11th-hour rally could get stock-market funds back up into the air in the second quarter. U.S. diversified equity funds dropped 0.35% in the three months, topping…

TheStreet.com Ratings initiated coverage of 27 stock mutual funds that accrued a sufficient track record of risk and performance data by the end of May 2011. Only two of these newly rated…