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...down market: a number of historically prominent mutual funds that long ago shut their doors to new investors are reopening. It's been years since anyone without an existing account could put money into some of the best-known names in the business, like Sequoia Fund, Dodge & Cox Stock, Longleaf Partners, Fidelity Magellan, Artisan Mid Cap Value, Oakmark Equityand Income, Vanguard International Explorer and Third Avenue Small-Cap Value...
Then there is the broader question of whether now is the best time to be putting money into mutual funds. Could all those investors heading for the hills - more than $11 billion have left stock funds in November, on top of $57 billion in October and $47 billion September, according AMG Data Services - actually know something? If history is any guide, the answer is no. "Investors are uncanny at how they're timing is exactly wrong whenever they make large net redemptions from mutual funds," says Marvin Bolt, president of the investment advisory firm Alpha Plus Advisors, who took...
...Conservation groups are enraged by the outcome. The WWF and Greenpeace announced in Marrakech that they would launch a global boycott of all restaurants and supermarkets that serve or stock bluefin tuna. They will also apply to have the species declared endangered under CITES, the international Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora; a move that would effectively ban the global trade in bluefin tuna. A similar campaign to ban ivory has largely succeeded in reviving the world's elephant herds. And both groups plan to end their long connection to ICCAT. "The game...
...police force, there is no way New York City could could ever protect its hotels, schools or other public buildings from attacks of this type, short of turning them into fortresses. There is no way for the NYPD to prevent a car bombing on Wall Street, sending the stock market into an even worse plunge, or a single suicide bomber from blowing himself up in the subway. Plans are available on the Internet for making bombs like these with ingredients available in hardware stores...
...Wild," I must take issue [Oct.27]. It is rainbow trout, not brown trout, that are the dominant species in most dams and rivers throughout Mpumalanga. Secondly, as both species almost never breed in still water such as dams, these dams (as well as most fished rivers) have to be stocked on a regular basis on a "put and take" basis. Stocking is an expensive exercise, and usually the club or farmer involved has to either raise purchased fingerlings to a suitable size (due to the cannibalistic nature of trout) or stock with a suitably sized fish which will...