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Emerging markets should do well as more capital becomes available. Countries like Brazil and Russia are volatile investments, but they're a pure play on global growth and worth 2% to 5% of your stock portfolio. Consider diversified mutual funds such as Acadian Emerging Markets and Vanguard Emerging Markets...
...adamantly that no one will be willing to give us directions. But after a morning of asking around we find Trinh Thi Minh Thu. Now 63, she lives just a few clicks past Kilometer 0. Thu was 24 when she came to Tan Ky, one of thousands of "vanguard women" who built the original trail by hand. She shows me a photo of herself from that time: a young girl with a sideways smile, wearing a conical hat tied with a bow. For six years, she slept on the ground, cutting trees and leveling rocks with only...
What can you do? Look for funds with written restrictions and penalties that discourage frequent trading of international funds (which give cheaters the most opportunity). Also look for "fair-value pricing," under which firms like Vanguard and Fidelity reset fund prices as news dictates. Consider exchange-traded funds, which are continuously priced and trade like stocks. In general, stick to funds with shareholder-friendly cultures--noted by low expenses, a record of closing popular funds to new investors, restraint in offering new funds for every fad and managers with their own money invested in the fund...
...Iraq in which international civil servants are murdered is not a success--which added to the urgency of finding out who was responsible for the Baghdad bomb. A hitherto unknown body called the Armed Vanguard of Muhammad's Second Army claimed responsibility, but it was simply impossible to know if the group even existed, let alone whether it had carried out the attack. In the days following the explosion, everyone from top Administration officials to Pentagon brass to the cottage industry of experts on terrorism to coffeehouse and bazaar gossips in Baghdad itself offered opinions on the perpetrators...
...presence in areas they patrol. The two outfits that have most aggressively pursued Saddam in recent weeks are the 4th Infantry Division's RAIDER BRIGADE, which controls Tikrit and the surrounding towns, and the 101st Airborne Division's STRIKE BRIGADE, in charge of Mosul and environs. However, the vanguard unit seeking Saddam is the elite TASK FORCE 20, whose exclusive job is to hunt for Iraq's most wanted. TF20, as it is called within the military, is a shadowy group that avoids the press. Military spokesmen in Iraq have no authority to comment on the unit or its activities...