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Vern Hayden

Vern C. Hayden, CFP, is President of Hayden Financial Group, a division of NorthEast Community Bank. He has been a board member of the CFP Board of Standards and has chaired the National Endowment for Financial Education.

Hayden regularly appears on leading national news and financial television programs such as CNBC, NBC, Fox News and Bloomberg. He is also a contributing writer for the Journal of Financial Planning and the American Association of Individual Investors Journal. He can be reached through www.haydenfinancial.com.

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Investment Portfolio: The Case for a Mutual Fund Manager-Based Strategy
by Vern Hayden

The main criteria the author uses in choosing funds are the managers' philosophy of investing and their track record in both up and down markets.