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Royce Focus Trust (NASDAQ: FUND) as of October 31, 2011

Invests in a limited number of small-cap companies using a value approachAverage weekly trading volume of approximately 194,000 sharesFund’s adviser has more than 35 years of small- and micro-cap

Critical Alerts For Dell, UnitedHealth, Devon Energy, Franklin Resources, and LM Ericsson Released By Seven Summits Research

CHICAGO, Sept. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Seven Summits Research issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for DELL, UNH, DVN, BEN, and ERIC. To see what our analysts have discovered about these stocks read

Zacks Bull and Bear of the Day Highlights: Franklin Resources, Merge Healthcare, Delta Air Lines, United Continental Holdings an

CHICAGO, May 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Zacks Equity Research highlights: Franklin Resources Inc. (NYSE: BEN) as the Bull of the Day and Merge Healthcare (Nasdaq: MRGE), as the Bear of the Day. In

Zacks Bull and Bear of the Day Highlights: Franklin Resources, Excel Maritime, Wal-Mart, Hewlett-Packard and Home Depot

CHICAGO, May 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Zacks Equity Research highlights Franklin Resources Inc. (NYSE: BEN) as the Bull of the Day and Excel Maritime (NYSE: EXM) the Bear of the Day. In addition,

Royce Focus Trust (NASDAQ: FUND) as of November 30, 2010

Invests in a limited number of small-cap companies using a value approachAverage weekly trading volume of approximately 194,000 sharesFund’s adviser has more than 35 years of small- and micro-cap

Royce Focus Trust (NASDAQ: FUND) as of October 31, 2010

Invests in a limited number of small-cap companies using a value approachAverage weekly trading volume of approximately 194,000 sharesFund’s adviser has more than 35 years of small- and micro-cap

Asset managers boost ad spending

Asset managers that focus on retail consumers have boosted their advertising spending this year. The likes of Fidelity Investments (Fidelity news), Franklin Resources and Janus Capital Group are bent

Mutual fund firms faring well

Mutual funds (mutual fund news) may be finding favor with investors, who seem to be jumping again. Franklin Resources and Invesco anyway saw their first quarter profits triple amid a market recovery.

What to make of asset managers right now?

Some have been building a case for asset managers, recently--especially with the equities market in rally mode. Analyst Kenneth Worthington of JP Morgan Securities has added some nuance to all this

Rise of the econophysicist?

What if we turned our top physicists loose on all that financial data floating around out there. Would they be able to come up with anything super insightful? Well, there's a new breed of physicist