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...first four months of this year, $52 billion in net new money flowed into stock funds--down a third from 1998's record levels. Moreover, as fund investors chase short-term performance above all, only a select group of the top fund families, with brand names like Vanguard, Janus, Fidelity, Putnam and Alliance, are capturing the bulk of that new cash--and much of it is "automatic" in the form of 401(k) plans. That leaves hundreds of smaller players to fight for the scraps, according to Financial Research Corp. "There's a lot more risk now," says Jack Brennan...
...fund industry is praying that the online trading boom and focus on just a few stocks (America Online, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, Cisco) is a short-term phenomenon, the sign of a cyclical market that has got out of hand, rather than a fundamental, long-term shift. "It's based on a false sense of empowerment," claims funds watcher Avi Nachmany of Strategic Insight. Once the narrow bull market calms down, or broadens to include harder-to-choose value and small-cap stocks (as it appears to have done of late), Nachmany and others argue, investors will rush back...
Androstenedione and creatine often get lumped together in press accounts (like this one) but are two very different compounds. Androstenedione (andro, for short) is an honest-to-goodness steroid and a precursor to testosterone. It is banned by the National Football League and the International Olympic Committee but not by Major League Baseball. Athletes take the supplement in the hope that their body will convert it into testosterone and help them develop bigger muscles during training...
Creatine, on the other hand, is not a steroid and more closely resembles a protein. Synthesized from amino acids, it functions as an energy reservoir for short, high-intensity workouts. You could boost your creatine levels by eating red meat and fish, but it would take an awful lot of steak and sushi...
Most studies of creatine show that it can improve performance by 2% or 3% in repetitive exercises that require short bouts of explosive energy, according to a panel of experts convened by the American College of Sports Medicine for its annual meeting last week. "But those are laboratory results that don't always translate well to the field," warns Ronald Terjung, a physiology professor at the University of Missouri who was chairman of the group. "The expectations athletes have for it are far greater than what is realized...