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Fidelity Biotech Fund (FBIOX) up 7.9% YTD Outperforms Major ETFs

Managed Healthcare Mutual Funds Starting To OutPerform ETFs Earlier this year we wrote an article on Investor Uprising comparing returns on biotech funds and major ETFs. At the time ETF’s were outperforming managed mutual funds. Now as we enter the strong quarter for small cap and biotech Fidelity Select Biotech (FBIOX) has pulled ahead of [...]

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Good Riddance to August 2010-Part 2 Safe Havens in Biotech and Gold

See Part One of the August review regarding the “bondfest”. We’ll spare you the review of what happened in August but now you know what worked- bonds and gold. Gold ended the month up 5.61% as it survived a correction under 1200 and brought in investors as fears of double dip and a waek dollar [...]

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Year End Biotech Rally on Schedule

Seasonality, deals and “healthcare reform lite” spur rally On November 18 we suggested some rebalancing in the Rayno Life Science Portfolio anticipating some year-end optimism.Today we got some help from licensing M&A and financing deals. http://seekingalpha.com/article/179029-this-week-s-biotech-deal-making-and-financing?source=yahoo Moreover. the dreaded healthcare reform cloud proved to be less threatening to many sectors of the healthcare market as [...]

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