European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 20 the stars and stripes sunday. April 24, 19bb investor s guide 0. A Friend s Mather saved $10,000 and an her diag try id cd invested hit Money in i rim Ruhl fund balding common stocks Lul aliens. The Mother does t up Coli Knoll so and h not aware la a the value of her investment planted As a result of Chr Ottber Iloth mar trl crash. My Friend is most can i Nind about this. She Ted wants in take Money nut of her saving to reimburse her Mother Shirald she Doyle la and invest in Utility stocks if 9d, which ones should she stay put should she switch in another fund in the same family of Mutual funds if so which onc7 a. In this multiple Choice ques Tion the Check Mark belongs next to none of he i j obvious thai because of the risk involved. Your Friend s Mother should not own stocks or Mutual fund shares. Her Money should be in Rock solid Safe things such As a Bank a savings mid loan association Bonds or us. Treasury securities. The daughter was wrong to steer tha lady elsewhere. I Ivan the circumstances 1 Sec nothing improper if your Friend mulch s up her Mother s losses. Q. Looking for a Safe Honien for my Money i invested in two govern ment Bond Mutual funds. Both hit the skids and i m wondering about keeping them. Are such funds Fli Safe i . Treasury securities a. No. After you and other shareholders buy shares of a government Bond Mutual fund the fund uses the Money to buy Bonds notes and other securities issued by the . Treasury and Federal agencies. There s no doubt that those securities will pay interest and will be redeemed at face value when i try mature. However Between the time those so Cunt is arc issued an their maturity dates the Market values of those securities Rise and Fojtl going up when interest rates decline and Down when interest rates climb. The value of the fund s shares fluctuates in line with the values of the securities the fund holds in its investment portfolio. Because the fund constantly Sells new Shorland redeems shares for shareholders who Cash out therby growing or thinking in size you can t be sure you la be Able to redeem Al a profit or even Al the same Price at which you invested. Over the Long term. Treasury and Federal Agency securities did not take big Price savings and government Bond Mutual funds were relatively stable investments. But in recent years interest rates have flu curled. So have the values of government Bond fund shares. We had a prime example of that in the Spring of 1987. When inter Esi Rales went up lots of folks who had put their Money in govern ment Bond Mutual funds Law the values of their investment Plum met. The same thing applies to All Bond funds including Hose holding corporate and municipal Bonds. Market s performance mixed new York Wplf the Stock mar Ket turned in a mixed performance last week As most individual and institutional investors stepped to the sidelines rather than risk gelling bounced around by the aggressive computer program traders. The Dow Jones Industrial average which Rose 27.69 Friday closed the week at 20ji,09. For the week the inde tacked on i.i6points. On two occasions during the week analysts cited. Some cursed futures related Selling for the collapse of significant Early Ossion rallies. On tuesday the Dow blew a 32-Poinl Advance to close Down about 9 Points. And thursday the ride managed Only a mod est gain after showing a 35-Point Advance. Ralph Bloch senior vice president and chief Market analyst 31 Raymond James so associates in St. Petersburg ra., said new York Exchange up cml to it of my eos 3.1ujoo Punim oium it Neil pm id Kab Lix Cim Carp Temh up ten Titi Corr Hraf in Scott temperatures april 23 m 39 of non fund prices from Page 19 gun i 17 by no 4 the re turns related activity during the week made it impossible to attract investors into the Market. From tuesday on virtually 90 per cent of the activity has been program trading Bloch said. It s an absolute outrage. Trie Public is pulling Back be cause of a total Lack of Bloch noted the Dow s roller on tuesday and thursday. Rallies cannot hold and this is a very dangerous sign Bloch said Broad Market indicators were Little changed on the week. The new York Stock Exchange composite Index Rose 0.03 to 147.03. Standard & poor s 500-Stock Index added it .17 to close the week Al 260.14. Declines edged advances 969-923among the 2,1 so issues traded. 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