LET'S FACE IT: Buying a mutual fund can be a pretty confusing business these days, what with the proliferation of funds, fund families and fund surveys.

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Thanks to the proliferation of no-load mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and mutual fund products like Fidelity sector funds and Vanguard's VIPERs, the choices for investors are wider than the culinary options at a Las Vegas buffet.

FORBES: Land Of The Rising Fund Lures All Star

Now, in the same month when the U.S. Treasury named six New York based Iranian front companies who move money for the proliferation of sanctioned weapons technology to Iran's nuclear program, Venezuela and Iran have inaugurated a joint bank to fund development projects.

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