Word: mutuals
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...agency thinks it has the real answer now, along with substantial evidence to support its conclusion that for more than two years Nicholson has been spying for the Russians. With the cold war over, the intelligence services of both nations are trying fitfully to cooperate on some matters of mutual interest, like terrorism and international crime. At the same time, as old enemies and uneasy friends, they probe each other by habit and inclination, looking for weak spots. Nicholson may have been one of them, and a potentially spectacular one at that. A branch chief in the CIA counterterrorism center...
...average 20% to 30% a year over long periods. So far, no large schools of U.S. investors are swimming overseas. A vicious bear market that clipped emerging-market stocks by 30% or more in 1994 remains a powerful deterrent. But Michael Price, the highly regarded manager of the Mutual Series funds, recently launched a European fund to capture values he sees overseas. The fund company Federated Investors, which manages more than $100 billion overall, has launched five foreign-stock funds this year for similar reasons...
Hundreds of mutual funds target specific countries and regions. Most of them are open-end funds, meaning you can buy and sell anytime at a price that perfectly reflects the underlying value of the stocks in the funds' portfolios. In smaller numbers there are closed-end "country funds," whose shares trade freely on the New York and other stock exchanges. Closed-end fund prices are governed purely by supply and demand, so they frequently trade above or below the underlying value of the stocks in the portfolios. Today the average country fund trades at a discount of 15%. Now, that...
...there really is such a thing) software as well. A new, easier-to-understand user interface makes the program simple to learn and easy to update. And, like most new software, Financial Suite includes hotlinks to related sites on the World Wide Web that let you keep track of mutual-fund and stock-market news. ($74.95; Intuit...
...buzz RON WHITE, PC Computing: "Quicken is the program for taking care of family finances. You can balance your checkbook, pick out and track mutual funds, calculate your net worth and then use Family Lawyer to figure out how you can avoid inheritance taxes...