Large cap funds are better than small or mid cap funds for risk-averse investors. These funds have exposure to large cap stocks, with a long-term performance history and more stability than what mid cap or small caps offer.

Strong data goes against what the large majority of investors now seem to believe: that index funds are a consistently better choice than managed mutual funds.

A few days ago we reported that the Ukraine decided to call Russia's "trump card" bluff - that would be everyone else's reliance on Russian gas supplies - when it drastically cut imports of Russian gas by 80% in February, seemingly to demonstrate its energy independence from Puting.

Russia’s oil and natural gas state monopoly Gazprom has been offered joint venture exploration projects in Algeria, the first foreign company to be invited to work in the country.