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Dr. Wong will speak on "Using a Personal Computer for Investment information", making the October meeting very educational. With a large number of investors in our group and quite a few members wanting to know more about their retirement accounts or how use their PC for information on investing, this will be a very informative meeting, so bring your note pad. Dr. Wong is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Louisville and a long time KIPCUG Member.

Many of us do not call brokers to buy or sell stocks; therefore, we do not consider ourselves "investors". Nevertheless, we may still be involved in stock markets, for example, most of us have retirement accounts, such as 401(k), 403(b), 457, IRA, or 529 Education Savings Plans. Currently the interest rates are so low that the savings accounts return almost nothing. Money market funds return less than 1%. What are the alternatives? Are there solid investments that return 10% or better? (Answer: Yes) The big question is where does one get good information? Dr. Julius P. Wong will give us the answers!

Are you interested in meeting others to share investment ideas, for example, the KIPCUG's Investing SIG, and Technical Market Analysis SIG? Outside KIPCUG, there is the Louisville Chapter of American Association of Individual Investors (AAII), and other groups. On the Internet, there are many good sites for investment information, such as Bloomberg, briefing.com, CBS MarketWatch, MSN MoneyCentral, Multex, Yahoo, etc. There are also investment groups such as iHub, Raging Bull, Silicon Investor, Yahoo, etc. How does one make good use of these groups?

In addition to US stocks, there are mutual funds, closed-end funds, and foreign stocks. How to find useful information on funds or foreign vehicles? Learn about all this and more with Dr. Wong at the October KIPCUG General Meeting.

Posted 10/31/03  Links from Dr. Wong's Presentation

The big questions were; with Money market funds returning less than 1%. What are the alternatives? Are there solid investments that return 10% or better? Well, Dr. Julius P. Wong said the answer is yes! Then he gave us the places to get good information!

For those of use that could not take notes fast enough, here are the topics and the URLs that Dr. Wong covered in his presentation 10/7/03 (courtesy of DR. Wong).

******  Screening at Yahoo Finance
http://biz.yahoo.com/
Then click on >  Stock Research -> Research Tools -> Stock Screener -> 10% Dividend, max P/E 20

****** MSN Money Central

http://msn.com/
Then click on > Money -> Stocks

****** Mutual Funds
CBS Market Watch
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/default.asp?siteid=&avatar=seen&dist=ctmw
Then click on > Newsletters & Research -> The Guru’s Corner -> Top Performing Newsletters

****** Fidelity links
Select Funds - http://activequote.fidelity.com/nav/select.phtml
Growth funds - http://activequote.fidelity.com/nav/growth.phtml
Growth and income - http://activequote.fidelity.com/nav/gandi.phtml
International - http://activequote.fidelity.com/nav/intern.phtml

****** Siliconinvestor.com
Biotech Stock Picking 2003 -  http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/subject.gsp?subjectid=53510
Greater China Stocks -  http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/subject.gsp?subjectid=53540
Greater China Stocks -  http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/subject.gsp?subjectid=53604

As a reminder, if you interested in meeting others to share investment ideas, please consider attending, the KIPCUG's Investing SIG and the Technical Market Analysis SIG.

KIPCUG Meeting Features:

Back-to-Basics with David Brooks

The KIPCUG October 7, 2003 General Meeting starts with the ever-helpful Back-to-Basics session with host David Brooks. The Back to Basics session will look at "Creating Useful Desktop Shortcuts". This is one Back-to-Basics that can help you every time you use your computer, so don't miss it!

Each month David chooses a subject to improve everyone's basic knowledge. His sessions are intended to help the entry level user.

User-to-User with Bill Cull

The User to User session with host Bill Cull is just before the Main Presentation, giving your KIPCUG friends a chance to answer YOUR questions submitted on paper. If YOU are having a problem with your PC, this is the time to get a good solution, so remember to bring your questions.

Door Prizes

KIPCUG members qualify for great door prizes.
 

This Month's Presenter

Dr. Wong is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Louisville. One of his hobbies is to apply engineering modeling and optimization techniques to real life problems. Before coming to U of L in 1974, he received his M.S. in Civil Engineering from Louisiana Tech University and Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Oklahoma State University. Dr. Wong is a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Professor Award at U of L for career teaching excellence. His areas of interest are computational mechanics, computer-aided engineering and materials. He has published and presented many technical papers in national and international journals and conferences in the areas of structural dynamics, stress analysis, materials and manufacturing. One of his hobbies is to apply engineering modeling and optimization techniques to real life problems.

From 1993-2001, Dr. Wong served as a member of the Steering Committee of the Louisville Chapter of American Association of Individual Investors (aaii.com). In 1996, he became a life charter member of Silicon Investor (siliconinvestor.com). Silicon Investor is the best-known investment discussion group on the Internet. It is the top ranked investment group by Barron's and Forbes. Among Silicon Investor's 300,000 members, there are fund managers, analysts and many investment professionals. Silicon Investor publishes a top 50 members list and a top 50 threads list, which are updated every 30 minutes. Julius Wong and his threads appear frequently on the top 50 lists. He is Silicon Investor's resident expert on retirement accounts, fidelity mutual funds and Greater China stocks. His Charts for Breakout thread is one of the top short term trading threads.