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Discussion and Closing Remarks Lee Gillam University of Surrey
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Tactical diversification Funeral services do not fit into standard industry classifications – not leisure or a consumer durable – and yet it’s one thing we all have in common Unattractive industries profitable, who knows chemical toilet manufacturers? Mutuals.com has launched a "socially irresponsible" fund, vicefund.com which targets alcohol, gambling, tobacco and defence stocks. The fund plans to invest in fims such as Philip Morris, the company behind Marlboro cigarettes, and Harrah's Entertainment, the Las Vegas casino operator.
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Comments William Miller, once Fed chairman, said that 23% of US population thought Federal Reserve was an Indian reservation, 26% a wildlife preserve and 51% a brand of whisky A man owns a $1M dog. When asked how he knows it was worth that, he replies that it was because he traded it for two $500,000 cats
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Comments October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February (Mark Twain)
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Sources of Information One up on Wall Street: Peter Lynch Beating the Street: Peter Lynch Everyone’s guide to online stock investing: Alexander Davidson Yahoo Finance
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Thanks Laurent Romary and local committee – Workshop proceedings Presenters Attendees EU LSP2003 organisers?
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Websites http://gida.jrconline.com http://www.computing.surrey.ac.uk/ai/gida http://www.computing.surrey.ac.uk/ai/FP6/FIONA_EOI.3.doc – Username: EOI – Password: old_macdonald – (Case sensitive)
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