Personal Investment Guide

Hedging Your Votes
Taxing questions.
Democrats have so far gotten the lion’s share of hedge-fund managers’ campaign contributions in the 2008 presidential money race — 75 percent, according to a Center for Responsive Politics/Absolute Return magazine analysis of the candidates’ first-quarter financials. Next week, when financials are due, we’ll know if the trend kept up in the [...]

I am purchasing my first home and need to sell several of my mutual funds for the down payment. Unfortunately, I am going to take a big hit when I have to pay the capital gains tax from the sale of the mutual funds.
Is there any way that I can apply these capital gains [...]