Kiplinger's Personal Finance

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Contents

Who Made the Best Bet?
12
G. Kenneth Heebner (American investment manager.), William H. Miller (American investment manager.), CGM Focus Fund (Investments), Legg Mason Value Trust (Investments), Stocks (Price forecasting)
Correction
14
Domestic quarrels, Personal finance, Money (Psychological aspects)
Reach at Your Own Risk
20
Adjustable rate mortgages
Brace Yourself for Hurricane Season
22
Kathleen J. Tierney (American sociologist) (Interviews), Hurricanes
What You Need to Know about Car Rentals
28
Automobiles (Renting)
Stocks with Attitude
60
Edmund Nicklin (American mutual fund manager.), Westport Fund (Investments), EOG Resources, Inc (Securities), Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings (Securities), Pall Corp (Securities), Precision Castparts Corp (Securities)
Beware the Slippery Slope
63
Federal Reserve System (U.S.), Interest (Economics), Bonds (Yields)
Rankings
64
Mutual funds (Rate of return, Rating)
What $1,000 Can Do
68
Investments, Consumption (Economics)
At Home Abroad
78
Vacation houses (Nova Scotia, Honduras, Italy), House buying, Americans (Housing, Foreign countries)

Preparing to Live La Vida Buena
30
Americans (Mexico), Retirement, Places of, Retirement income, Portfolio management
When Numbers Don't Add Up
32
Financial statements, Corporations (Accounting), Cash flow, Stocks, Accounting ethics
Dive Into Growth
38
Pentair Inc (Securities), Sanderson Farms, Inc (Securities), Citrix Systems Inc (Securities), Corporate Executive Board Co (Securities), Fisher Scientific International Inc (Securities), Mid-capitalization stocks (Price forecasting), Growth companies (Securities), Mutual funds
Betting on the House
44
Samuel Lieber (American investment manager) (Interviews), Alpine U.S. Real Estate Equity Fund (Investments), Real estate investment, Construction industry (Securities)
The 13 Riskiest Housing Markets
50
Housing (Costs), Real estate investment (Forecasting), Cities and towns (Rating)
They Got Game
54
Activision Inc (Securities)
Slim Pickings
56
Small capitalization stocks, Value investing, Mutual funds
Growth Funds are Back
58
Growth companies (Securities), Mutual funds, Large capitalization stocks (Price forecasting)
Paying College Bills
84
College education (Costs)
A Mortgage for Every Buyer
85
Mortgages
The Big Payoff
87
Debt, Young adults (Economic conditions), Student aid
Pack Your Plastic
92
Credit cards (Fees), Travel (Economic aspects), Foreign exchange
Wagon Revival
96
Volvo V50 (Automobile), Audi A3 (Automobile), Dodge Magnum (Automobile), Mazda 6 (Automobile), Mercedes-Benz E55 (Automobile), Station wagons (Rating)
Tables You Can Bank on
100
Mose Duane (American pool table mechanic and billiards hall owner.), Pool tables (Purchasing)
Haute Tubs for Your Deck
105
Hot tubs
Retire Your VCR.
107
Digital video recorders and recording (Purchasing)

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