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...Some of us are committed to finding companies with superior technology," Shah writes in an e-mail message. "Others look to earnings and value, while still others turn to future growth prospects. The end result is that we find and invest in a diverse slate of companies that outperform the general market as a whole...
...market-cap champs, such as 1998's passing of the belt from General Electric to Microsoft, were useful indicators. Microsoft's emergence bespoke information technology as the driving force in our economy, supplanting consumer goods, aerospace and financial services as the sectors that investors most expected to outperform the rest of the market. The same point could have been made in 1993, when GE surpassed Exxon (consumer goods trumped oil), or a hundred years ago, when John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil was a monopolistic market bully and trust-busting wasn't even a slogan for Teddy Roosevelt...
...unlikely that there'll be a reduction in capital expenditure on technology once the Y2K problem has passed - companies are more likely to maintain that investment in order to stay ahead. There may be a shakeout in the NASDAQ in the coming months, but it will probably still outperform the DOW and S&P again next year, and in the foreseeable future...
...pouring cash into subadvised funds. These funds are farmed out by the likes of Vanguard and Dreyfus to outside managers with special expertise. That's a good thing, according to a recent study, which showed that subadvised funds, especially in growth, health and emerging-market stocks, initially outperform, by up to 0.5% annually, their in-house peers. Two such choices are Enterprise Growth and Dreyfus Appreciation...
...ESOP FABLE Before you plunk down your hard-earned cash to invest in a company, you might want to find out if its employees are doing the same. According to a new study by Hewitt Associates, firms that offer employee stock-ownership plans (ESOPs) outperform their industry peers handily. Though more firms now offer stock options to lure new hires, 1,000 public companies (and 9,000 private ones) currently motivate workers with ESOPs. They include such companies as UAL, BellSouth, Allied Signal, Merrill Lynch and Procter & Gamble...