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If you want to buy in this depressed real-estate market, it might be tempting to think any piece of property can be had for a song ? but that?s just not true, as Amy Hoak writes today in her Home Economics column. While some properties are great deals for the buyer, not every seller is under the gun. If you want to avoid classic lowball-offer mistakes, you need to understand the market, have a knowledgeable real-estate agent and be able to make a ?clean? offer.
And in his funds column this week, Chuck Jaffe says timing is everything for the new fund offerings from Grandeur Peaks. Would-be buyers, he writes, have to balance the enticement of a new fund and a star manager with the idea that the fund is likely to specialize in small- and micro-cap investing at a time when that part of the market has been hammered.
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Anne Stanley
, Managing Editor, Personal Finance
PERSONAL FINANCE
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Star manager, new funds, hard questions
Suppose you could be one of the first investors into a new mutual fund by one of the greatest money managers of the past two decades. Sounds great. But what if that manager?s specialty is an area of the market that?s currently out of favor?
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