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Answers questions on personal finance and investments. Reasons behind the closure of mutual funds such as the Fidelity Magellan Mutual Fund to investors; Factors behind the decline in stock mutual funds and stocks.

Answers questions about investments in the United States as of April 3, 2000. Effects of interest rates increase on bonds.

Presents answers to queries related to investments and personal finance. Advisability of investing in stocks found on the Pink Sheets; Replacing of a missing stock certificate.

Answers inquiries about personal investments in the United States. Purchase of an annuity from an individual retirement account; Meaning of `whisper numbers' in stock trading.

Offers advice to investment-related queries. Early planning for a child's college education; Protecting index mutual funds from market decline.

Answers queries on money and investing in the United States. Explanation of the Spiders concept of index investing; Decision-making on selling or keeping stock in Sempra Energy, which is conducting a Dutch Auction that allows shareholders to tender their stock for purchase by the firm.

Offers financial and investment advice. Advantages and disadvantages of investing in convertible bonds; Significance of earnings and price-to-earnings ratio in stock analysis.

Gives advice on aggressive investments, wherein investors accept high risks in exchange for the potential of high rewards. Evaluation of the portfolios of mutual funds; Returns of technology stocks; Timetable for investing in aggressive stocks and mutual funds.

Gives advice on making personal investments in the United States. Preparation of the stock portfolio for the year 2000 computing crisis; Tips on selecting a financial adviser.

Presents responses to two investment-related inquiries from the United States. Listing requirements at the New York Stock Exchange; Competition from other stock exchanges; Collection of payment from coupon bonds.

Answers several questions on personal finance. Suggested books to give someone who wants to learn about investing; Way to determine what Social Security benefits a retiree will receive.

Answers questions about investments. Transfer of mutual funds and stocks from a full-service firm to an online brokerage; Why companies split their stocks.

Answers questions about investments. Investing in mutual funds; Obtaining the services of professional investment advisers.

Answers questions about fund investments. Mutual funds' capital gains distribution; Fees and expenses that eat into the long-term performance of any investment.

Answers questions about investments and personal finance management. Includes use of individual retirement account money to finance home purchases; Investing in gold.

Discusses how to invest in stocks of foreign corporations. Placing money on mutual funds with foreign investments; Difference between a global fund and an international fund; Changes in economic conditions in other countries; Buying American Depository Receipts; Investing in American companies with big earnings from overseas operations.

Answers readers' questions on investing and other financial matters. Factors that determine whether an investor can back out after an investment transaction with a broker has been completed; Benefits of investing into a mutual fund.

Presents answers to queries concerning investments in the United States. Maturity dates of Savings Bonds; Ways of avoiding taxes for bonds that have reached maturity dates; Positive and negative sides of the Uniformed Gifts to Minors Account.

Answers investment queries. Mutual funds; Investment clubs.

Answers questions about investments. Educational savings program for California residents; Tips on selecting a stockbroker.

Answers questions on money and investing. Rationale behind selling mutual funds to invest in variable annuities; Explanation on the Joint Tenancy With Rights of Survivorship.

Responds queries about investments in the United States. Benefits and drawbacks of buying Treasury obligations; Adjustable rate mortgages.

Answers queries related to investments. Fees and expenses associated with mutual funds; Investment opportunities arising from the so-called graying of the American society.

Presents answers to queries related to investments and business finance. Investing in a mutual fund with limited money; Suggestions when investing overseas.

Offers advice on investment and personal finance. Use of index and management funds; Deduction of home mortgage expenses from income taxes.

Responds to inquiries concerning personal finance and investments in the United States. Real estate investment trusts; Contributions to a tax-deferred individual retirement account.

Answers questions about investments and personal finance. Costs involved with 401(k) plans; Replacing lost stock certificates.

Offers investment advice. How to handle a buyback offer from an electric utility company where he owns 75 shares; Risks in having one's investments held by a broker in street name.

Answers questions on investments. Advise for investing in an Individual Retirement Account in zero coupon bonds; Volatility of so-called utility stocks.

Offers advice on issues related to personal investment in the United States. Use of money obtained from a home equity line of credit as investment in the stock market; Disadvantages in the use of the value of homes to speculate in the stock market; Investments in preferred stocks as a means to increase investment yields.

Answers questions concerning stocks and investments. Purchase of Japanese stocks through American Depository Receipts; Replacement of a lost United States Savings Bond.

Answers questions concerning investments. Appropriateness of transferring money placed in conservative investments, such as certificates of deposit (CD), into growth mutual funds; Transferring money from 401(k) plans to individual retirement accounts.

Gives advice on making personal investments. Portioning of inheritance money in a short term investment; Start of a 13-year-old as an investor.

Offers advice on personal finance management. Includes tax liability concerns in transferring stock shares as a gift; Selling of US savings bonds.

Presents answers to queries related to personal finance and investments. Suggested investment book most suitable as a Christmas present; Recommended area of investments amidst the wide swings in the American stock market.

Presents a question-and-answer advisory on saving and investing. Warning against sales pitches used by unscrupulous commodity brokers; Timing stock selling.

Answers investment-related questions sent in by readers of `San Diego Business Journal.' Importance of buying insured tax-free municipal bonds; Getting parents to talk about where their money is invested.

Presents answers to questions related to investments. Dell Computers' two-for-one stock split; Acquisition of bonds.

Responds to queries related to investments. Tips on how to buy into the initial public offering of a firm; Investment startup.

Answers queries on investing and personal finance management in the United States. Government's savings bond that offer protection against inflation as college funding source; Potential of stocks that are merger targets.

Presents a question-and-answer advisory on stock investments. Includes questions on stocks falling into the defensive stocks category; Investment in index funds.

Presents answers to queries about investments. Advantages of securing a profile prospectus of mutual funds in making investment decisions; Availability of books about investing.

Provides question and answer advisory concerning investments and investing in the United States. Wanting to be a socially relevant and productive investor; Facts about mutual funds.

Presents a question-and-answer advisory related to investing in the United States. 401(k) options when moving to another job; Advice on considering a career in the securities industry.

Responds to inquiries concerning investments in the United States. Definition of pink sheets; Investing on the Education Individual Retirement Accounts.

Presents questions and answers on personal investments. Suggestion on where to put the money from an inheritance; Advice for a young investor.

Provides information on no-load investing. Concept of no-load mutual funds; Idea behind the Direct Stock Purchase (DSP) and Dividend Reinvestment Program (DRIP) programs; How to get more information about DSP and DRIP.

Discusses the difference between good old-fashioned growth investing and value investing. Author's example of Warren Buffet and his company, Berkshire Hathaway on the concept of value investing; Emphasis on the book `Benjamin Graham on Value Investing;' How to avail for shares from the Initial Public Offering (IPO).

Answers some questions on investment and financing. Importance of having all the necessary papers to prove the cost basis for any stocks or mutual funds to US Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Advice in switching from adjustable loan to fixed-rate loan regarding mortgages.

Opinion. Discusses ways to invest your money. Explanation of the term `Dogs of the Dow'; Description of a Unit Investment Trust; Details on the Roth IRA, the Tax Relief Act of 1997.