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CLEAR FOCUS Tired of waiting for those quarterly reports that show how the individual stocks in your mutual funds have been doing? Montgomery Asset Management is rolling out a family of "focused funds" called Stock Solutions that will put its investments into more "transparent" portfolios. Fund owners will have online access to information on stock holdings and their allocations, albeit with a two-week lag (instead of the three months or six months it takes most fund companies). That way, you can dump a fund sooner if you don't like its dogs...
Williams said the numerous first-year board members will be an asset in redirecting BSA next year...
...believe that the diversification of the larger endowment portfolios will help reduce volatility of investments over the longer term," a report released in Feb. 1999 says. "If the U.S. equity markets enter a significant period of poor performance, university investment officers expect these non-traditional asset classes to reduce the volatility of their investment returns over the long term...
...long indeed, and if you hold only a few stocks, there are no guarantees. You could be wiped out. Even if you own a basket of tech stocks, your nest egg could drop 50% or more in the time it takes to order that new BMW. Spreading investments across asset classes reduces such risk and looks dumb only to the tech cultists...
Perhaps the squad's greatest asset this season is, surprisingly, its lack of a superstar. Without a crutch to lean upon during slumps, the team has become a much more cohesive unit. Laine and junior Marcie Chan bring the only source of veteran leadership to the team, so the younger players will have to learn quickly if the team is going to succeed this season...