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Ilana Polyak

Ilana is a financial copywriter specializing in retirement, personal finance, and financial advisor topics. For InvestmentNews she covered practice management issues, investing strategies and developments in the asset management industry. You can see her LinkedIn profile here.

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Fund companies have a big secret: Size of top managers’ paychecks

A list of the world's top secrets would include the key to the philosophers' stone, the formula for Coca-Cola and the compensation for a top-performing mutual fund manager.

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Fund pay: $1,000 an hour

A big gulf still separates the fat cats from the merely fatted among the 50 top-compensated mutual fund directors this year, but Dreyfus Funds director Joseph DiMartino remains in a class by himself.

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One on One: "That was a fluke caused by Alan Greenspan"

Growth-and-income funds don't usually post triple-digit gains. Then again, Robert Loest of IPS Millennium Fund is not your ordinary money manager.

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Value superstar falls to earth

Value investing continues to leave roadkill along the highway. Just ask David Schafer. While many value managers have…

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Mom, pop boost stocks

It used to be that when the going got tough, investors got going — away. But even as…

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Value superstar falls to earth

Value investing continues to leave roadkill along the highway. Just ask David Schafer. While many value managers have…

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Mom, pop boost stocks

It used to be that when the going got tough, investors got going — away. But even as…

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CONFERENCE CALL: Independent directors mull what to do and not to do

Most agree that mutual fund boards of directors should take their jobs seriously, but there are some duties…

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CONFERENCE CALL: Independent directors mull what to do and not to do

Most agree that mutual fund boards of directors should take their jobs seriously, but there are some duties…

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Kaufmann climbs off the canvas

The tough guys at the Kaufmann Fund have had sand kicked in their faces for years. But at…