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When London-based Atlantis Investment Management launched a fund in medium-sized Chinese companies last March, the fund's size was a modest $15 million. Eleven months later, the stocks in its portfolio have doubled and the inflow of new money from eager investors has swelled its value to $116 million. "Europeans want to get exposure to what's happen-ing in China," says James Alexander, Atlantis' head of marketing. While the big jump in prices has made some investors wary, he says "there's still plenty of demand." That may be the understatement of the year. Chinese stocks, particularly...
...merger idea "nonsense,'' arguing that the $35 billion price tag, plus $8 billion in AT&T debt, would obliterate any benefits. And to make a deal Vodafone would have to wriggle out of its noncompete accord with Verizon, the U.S. leader, by agreeing to dump its 45% of Verizon stock. AT&T should pick a suitor by month's end. A Pourboire for the Chefs Maybe there is such a thing as a free lunch. Even as it struggles to contain its ballooning budget deficit, the French government last week wrote a 31.5 billion check to a famously well...
...small-cap aggressive growth. There are also fixed-income separate accounts. Your cash is invested along the same lines as that of countless other separate-account holders, with one exception: you get to fine-tune. Maybe you have an issue with tobacco. Or you might want to avoid stocks of companies in the industry in which you work--so that if the entire sector crashes, you don't lose your investment along with your job. Just say the word, and your manager will purge your portfolio of such securities. Another benefit: because you can customize your portfolio, you are able...
...meeting started to return to the topics that once defined it: the global economy and the future of technology. The annual Japan dinner attracted a bigger crowd than it has for years; the high-tech heroes had more of a spring in their step. (One leading indicator for tech-stock bulls: vintage '95 Taittinger champagne at the Silicon Valley reception.) But there were other signs of optimism, notably the scores of young business leaders from the Arab world who spoke eloquently of their desire for real political and economic reform...
...think about where to deploy assets this year and beyond, save room for dividend payers. Byron Wien, market strategist at Morgan Stanley, predicts that a surge in the prices of stocks with a yield will be one of the big surprises of 2004 and that the year's winners will include Pfizer, Wyeth, Bristol-Myers, GE, Microsoft (it started paying a dividend last year), Coca-Cola and Altria. Any number of mutual funds focus on dividend payers. Among the best are Fidelity Dividend Growth, T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth and (if you invest through a broker) Capital Income Builder from...