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The Globe and Mail's Globe Investor section (which replaced Net Worth) is dedicated to giving you what you need to manage your personal finances successfully. Globe Investor appears every Saturday in The Globe and Mail and on globeinvestor.com. View our archive of past Globe Investor issues.
TOP STORY
Is the PC toast?
The familiar desktop computer faces a sales slowdown -- and some investors fear it could become just another dull household appliance -- but there's still plenty of money to be made from this old reliable, ANDREW BELL writes.
By ANDREW BELL
What slump in the personal computer industry? Despite slow sales this Christmas, the global industry will almost certainly grow like a weed in the coming decade, making lots of investors rich.
Hockey enthusiast likes the team approach
TONY MARTIN profiles a project manager who, when he's off the job and the rink, spends his time with an investment club
By TONY MARTIN
Blain Rempel likes the team approach.During the winter he hits the ice every Friday night. During the day, he's a project manager for INSI Strategic Technologies, a computer consulting firm. And much of his remaining spare time is spent honing his investing skills with a seriously organized investment club.
NET WORTH - BEST BUYS
A weekly scorecard of some of the lowest and highest rates and yields across Canada. The survey of mortgages, GICs and car loans - taken from a sample of companies by Cannex Financial Exchanges - covers posted rates only so consumers may be able to haggle for a better deal at some financial institutions.
Dividend funds help a portfolio shine in bad times
By ROB CARRICK
Here's a way to expedite the search for a solid Canadian equity fund.Instead of sorting through the 400 or so mutual funds in this category, focus your attention on the much shorter list of 80 or so dividend funds.
Oil stocks still look good despite slowing economy
By JEFFREY RUBIN
What does a slowing global economy mean for energy prices? Little if anything for natural gas prices, which have emerged from crude's shadow to steal the spotlight. Up roughly 250 per cent in the past year, spot prices are soaring to record highs.
HOT HAND
A look at what the hot fund managers are buying
By ANDREW ALLENTUCK
The Universal World Real Estate Fund may be changing the way investors view the sector. Though real estate funds gained less than 1 per cent a year for the decade ended Nov. 30, 2000, Universal's fund gained 19.2 per cent for the year. For the past three months, it's the No. 2 fund, up 2.5 per cent.
This looks like a bull market correction
By GORDON POWERS
Let's face it. The last thing fund buyers saving for retirement want to think about is a bear market. And, as we move through this century's third extended bull run, hardly anybody is seriously predicting doomsday. Still, the odds that things will go seriously wrong a couple of times during your investing lifetime are unnervingly high.
STARS & DOGS
A selection of this week's winners and losers DOGS
United Parcel Service $58.68 U.S., down $5.01 (UPS-NYSE) Ah, UPS -- Don't they give you goosebumps? Dark boxy vans, sinister little wireless keypads, frightening brown uniforms. We're always calling them round for no reason, just to watch a muscular, lithe... anyway. The stock hit a lamp-post after UPS said its Christmas shipments are flat so far compared with 1999. Investors are leaving this squashed package lying in the slush.
WHO'S HOT
Phil Condit Back in '98, Boeing boss Phil was as popular with investors as a 300-lb lad in the next seat with a crusty sweater and keen interest in your chest. Boeing shares went down in a plume of oily smoke as Asia tanked and its dim factories churned out hilarious lemons with one bent wing and nowhere for the pilot to pass out. But Phil's flying again as his production backlog hits $111-billion. With Boeing stock up 62 per cent this year, shareholders are ordering doubles and pawing the cabin crew.
