Phil Anderson: American Council of Life Insurers, Aetna, AIG, New York Life, MassMutual, VISA

Rebecca Anderson: Aegon, American Council of Life Insurers, Cigna, Barclays, Credit Suisse First Boston, HSBC

Stanton Anderson: The Debt Exchange

David Beightol: Allstate, Amerigroup, Charles Schwab, HSBC

Rhonda Bentz: VISA

Wayne Berman: American Council of Life Insurers, AIG, Americhoice, Shinsei Bank, Blackstone, Carlyle Group, Broidy Capital Management, Credit Suisse Securities, Highstar Capital, VISA, Ameriquest Mortgage, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Fitch Ratings

Charlie Black: JP Morgan, Washington Mutual Bank, Freddie Mac, Mortgage Bankers Association of America, National Association of Mortgage Brokers

Judy Black: Colorado Credit Union League, Genworth Financial, Bay Harbour Management, Merrill Lynch

Kirk Blalock: Credit Union National Association, Financial Executives International, American Insurance Association, Mutual of Omaha, Zurich Financial Service Group, Fannie Mae, Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco

Carlos Bonilla: Financial Services Roundtable, Freddie Mac

Christine Burgeson: Citigroup

Mark Buse: Freddie Mac, Goldman Sachs, Manufacturers Life Insurance Company

Nicholas Calio: Citigroup, Managed Fund Association, Fannie Mae, Merrill Lynch, The Investment Company Institute, TIAA-CRE, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association

Ben Nighthorse Campbell: Amscot Financial Corporation, Community Financial Services Association, Fidelity National Financial

Andrew Cantor: American Insurance Association, Merrill Lynch

Alberto Cardenas: Fannie Mae

James Courter: Goldman Sachs, Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, Investment Company Institute, Merrill Lynch

David Crane: Financial Services Roundtable, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte & Touche, KPMG, Ernst & Young, Bank of America, Association of Corporate Credit Unions, Freddie Mac

Dan Crippen: Merrill Lynch, National Multi-Housing Council

Arthur Culvahouse: Fannie Mae

Bryan Cunningham: Arch Capital Group

Alfonse D’Amato: AIG, Freddie Mac

Doug Davenport: Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, Goldman Sachs, VISA

Ashley Davis: Prudential Financial, American Financial Group, American Premier Underwriters, Great American Insurance Company

Mimi Dawson: MassMutual

Melissa Edwards: Freddie Mac, National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Access to Capital Coalition

Chris Fidler: American Bankers Association, Milcom Venture Partners, National Association Real Estate Investment Trusts

Samuel Geduldig: American Bankers Association, American Institute of CPAs, America Gains, Berkshire Hathaway, Consumer Bankers Association, Ernst & Young, Financial Services Roundtable, Investment Company Institute, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Prudential Financial, Sovereign Investment Council, Fidelity Investments, FMR Corp.

Benjamin Ginsberg: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, AIG Technical Services

David Girard-Dicarlo: American Financial Group, American Premier Underwriters

Juleanna Glover Weiss: RJI Capital, American Institute of CPAs, BNP Paribas, Ernst & Young, PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Slade Gorton: Allstate Insurance, Hannan Armstrong Capital

Phil Gramm: UBS Americas

John Green: Laredo National Bank, Alternative Investment Management Association, AIG, Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group, Citigroup, Credit Suisse Group, Fannie Mae, Icahn Associates, FMR Corp., AFLAC, VISA

Janet Grissom: American Institute of CPAs, NYSE, Merrill Lynch

Kristen Gullott: San Diego Credit Union

Kent Hance: Stanford Financial Group, Municipal Capital Markets Group, Inc.

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When reading ratings of stock mutual funds in Forbes or Kiplinger's magazine, why is it a colum is never entered for certain funds for dividend yield?
The mutual fund types in particular I'm asking about are say equity income, balanced funds where a good portion is put into bonds and say a sector fund of large bank stocks. Especially now in the bank area where they have tumbled. If a bank still pays same dividend and the price has gone south a lot, the dividend yield would rise a great deal. So , why do these magazines not have a of dividend yield for Certain funds?

For mutual funds, the thing you need to look at is Total Return, not "dividend yield." Mutual funds make periodic dividend/capital gains distributions, but it does not work like individual stocks or bonds.

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I don't want to just rely on simple interest.

I don't want it to sit in my bank in USD, because the US dollar is sinking, and i don't have much confidence in it.

I am reluctant to investing in any stock, because the whole market is going down. Even if I choose a winner like apple, adobe, google, etc, if the whole market goes down, so does my particular stock.

I don't want to invest in gold, because i think it has reached a plateau,a nd i don't think i could flip it for a profit for like at least 5 years or so.

i don't want to invest in real estate, because that seems to be going down as well.

i've tried looking up ways to invest in Euros, but there seems to always be too much of a penalty to make the conversion from USD to euro. Same goes for chinese or japanese currency.

so what else is there? any other ideas? anybody know anything about investing in foreign mutual funds? any good recommendations with high morning star ratings?

thanks
Oh yeah, and thank God, i don't have any debts. Seriously, it's a huge blessing.
Some people have suggested mutual funds… but the problem with them is that they suffer with the stock market. Of course they'll go down a lot less, but at the end of the day, if the stock market goes down a lot, the mutual fund will as well.

I don't think the market will be healed for another year or two at least, so mutual funds are almost as non-appealing as stocks.

any other ideas?
oh and foreign mutual funds sound like a good idea… any specific suggestions such that the fund has a very high morning star rating?

Why foreign mutual funds? Why not US mutual funds that invest in foreign stocks and or bonds. Vanguard, T. Rowe Price, Fidelity, Janus, Dodge & Cox and many other fund families have some fine foreign stock funds. Some bond funds (just as an example, do you own research)
AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (NYSE:AWF), PIMCO Strategic Global Government bond fund (NYSE:RCS).

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IT IS QUITE SURPRISING THAT INSTITUTIONS AND ESPECIALLY MUTUAL FUNDS ARE STILL INVESTED IN NASTECH PHARMACUTICAL AFTER A 48% DECLINE IN STOCK PRICE SINCE LAST AUGUST. CONTINUOS BAD EARNINGS REPORTS, DELAYS, BAD RATINGS,
AND THE STOCK PRICE CONTINUES
TO FALL. SO WHAT GENIOUS IS IN CHARGE OF THE INSTITUTIONS AND MUTUAL FUNDS, IF HALF THEIR MONEY IS ALREADY GONE AND THEIR STILL HOLDING THE STOCK.
IT'S LIGHT YEARS AWAY FROM ANY POTENTIAL APPROVAL AND EARNINGS. SO WHAT IS THE REASONING PLEASE?
WHERE TALKING ABOUT $30 MILLION DOLLARS NOT $30 DOLLARS.
RESEARCH FIRMS ARE FINALLY RE-EVALUATING THE TARGET PRICES AFTER 6 MONTHS OF DOWNWARD STOCK PRICE DEPRECIATION.
THEY TO SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES FOR HAVING SET HIGH TARGETS THAT ARE NOT WARRANTED.
AND WHY DOES MANAGEMENT CONTINUE TO BLEED THE COMPANY MONTHLY FOR DECADES.
IT'S LIKE A LEGAL WAY TO STEAL AND
THE POOR SHAREHOLDERS SOON WILL BE LEFT WITH A WORTHLESS CERTIFICATE.

Here's my theory.

The funds are stuck in the stock. In order to sell you have to have someone willing to buy the stock. Right now, it is averaging about 250,000 shares in volume. At $10 a share, the total cash value of transactions a day is 2.5M. All of the top mutual and institutional holder are holding more than that. Even if just one institution sold their entire holding in one day, there wouldn't be enough volume to buy all their stock, and they would not get a good price (crash the stock). Their only option right now is to hold and wait on things to turn dumping small increments when they can.

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I have stated countless times all the negative reasons why this stock should not perform well at this current time.
It's against all principles,logic,reasons,ratings and fundamentals to defy key statistical data
when evaluating a stock.
So is the current uptick in pre-market the
direct result of stock manipulation by brokers,mutual funds etc., or conclusive
reasons of explanation?

Easter is this weekend and everyone excited. I not think the Market is ever predictable. But, it seems some of the most irrelevant things make something move. So, we can not rule out Easter. But, there may also be some unforeseen speculation going on too. Is the company to release any news today on profits or mergers?
Here your answer; On March 14 it reach a record low of $9.50.
Look at the 52 week High/Low? The first rule to buying and selling stock. You buy low and you sell high. It is a speculation to buy. But, the smart buyers actually started back around $9.50 seeing the rebound off the low.

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