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Value investing these days is a lot like firefighting. With everyone fleeing the credit market inferno, value investors are rushing in to save anything worth saving.

Don’t just buy and hold, says ETF Capital Management’s chief investment officer Larry Berman

After riding the greatest commodities boom in half a century, suddenly, playing the mining sector is not so simple. Many of the related equities have run out of steam amid fears of dwindling metals demand in a global economic downturn.

Canadians will now be able to buy homegrown exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that let them dip a toe in the pool of real estate and infrastructure assets across the world.

As the entire world’s economy slows and equities slide, investors are looking at alternative assets.

Many fund managers make investment commentaries available on their websites to anyone who drops by for a visit.

Record high oil and gas prices helped prolong the strong performance from energy-heavy mutual funds in the first half of 2008.

The honeymoon appears to be over for newly listed Visa Inc.