THE MFI SPOTLIGHT

Meet Your MFI Neighbors:

Steve Dunn
California

Steve Dunn Mutual fund investor since: Mutual fund investor since the late 1970's, when I bought the Vanguard S and P 500 Index fund (after the DOW crashed down to around 600), which I sold in the early 1980's when the market become "overvalued", and then "plunged" back into equities after about a 15 year hiatus on April 11, 1997, about 5000 points up in the Dow later. Nice "timing" skills eh?
Occupation: I'm an "officer of the court", aka a "lawyer".
Favorite food: Catfish, as served in an upscale Asian restaurant.
Favorite vacation spot: Tie between France, the redrock country of Utah, and the Grand Tetons
Investment philosophy: Risk avoidance, value oriented passive approach, using index funds as my primary investment vehicle, who tries to "time" the market a bit at the "edges". I finally learned my lesson, maybe.
What I like about MFI: The friends I have made, and what I have learned by being an active participant, and the "rush" I get from having available to me a friendly site to which I can subject my attempts at creative writing, none of which would have happened without MFI.

Roberta Meyer
Florida

Roberta Meyer Mutual fund investor since: 1983
Occupation: Teacher. This was a mid-life career change. Started as a nurse.
Favorite food: Chocolate.
Favorite vacation spot: Everywhere I've been. I just like vacations!
Investment philosophy: Buy and hold with momentum for new money.
What I like about MFI: The variety of opinions and the civility of it. It allows us to disagree and examine various positions and theories.

Carrie Webber
California

Carrie Webber Mutual fund investor since: 1993
Occupation: I do contract work for various government agencies relating to energy conservation.
Favorite food: Chocolate.
Favorite vacation spot: Probably Disneyland. I've gone at least once a year, every year since 1991.
Investment philosophy: Definitely buy and hold.
What I like about MFI: The people. There is such a wealth of knowledge represented by the posters, and everyone is willing to share, whether it is advice to a newbie or a discourse on charting techniques.

David Snowball
Iowa

David Snowball Mutual fund investor since: 1994 ('84, if you count CREF's retirement annuities, but the choices were really limited)
Occupation: Associate Professsor of Speech Communication, Augustana College. For most of the past 15 years, I've been the College's debate coach.
Favorite food: Chicken! Baked, grilled, saladed, sauteed, stuffed, roasted, parmesan'd, moo shu'd
Favorite vacation spot: Door County, Wisconsin - the peninsula just above Green Bay. It's a lot like Cape Cod, with fewer tourists.
Investment philosophy: All of the research in the world doesn't do you any good unless you act on it. When you become convinced that a particular action is right, stop fretting and act.
What I like about MFI: I'm passionate about teaching and learning and they're not really separable activities. You haven't really learned something until you can teach it to someone else. And you can't teach unless you're learning constantly. MFI is the forum where I have - by far - learned the most and where I've had the best opportunity to share some of what I've learned.

Bill Jones
Connecticut

Bill Jones Mutual fund investor since: 1975
Occupation: Professor of Computer Science and Math
Favorite food: Chocolate chip cookies
Favorite vacation spots: Puerto Rico
Investment philosophy: Buy-and-hold in bull markets, cut-and-run in bears
What I like about MFI: So many people are willing to give serious, constructive, courteous, and well-thought out responses to the ideas I toss out. These discussions have metamorphosed my entire investment philosophy over the past two years.

Will Johnston, Jr.
California

Will Johnston, Jr. Mutual fund investor since: 1976
Occupation: Investor, San Francisco AAII Program Chairman
Favorite foods: Scallops and Sun Dried Tomatoes W/ Angel Hair Pasta in a delicate Buerre Blanc; Snickers
Favorite vacation spots: Bora Bora; High Sierra; Grand Canyon (river running)
Investment philosophy: "Win a few, lose a few.....less"
What I like about MFI: The unselfish sharing of high caliber mutual fund discussion by investors of all skill levels. As I've said before, "Cheers with a purpose"

Paul Harvey
Massachusetts

Paul Harvey Mutual fund investor since: 1981
Occupation: Librarian
Favorite food: Kung pao chicken (edged out winter melon soup by a hair)
Favorite vacation spot: Maui
Favorite mutual fund and why: Neuberger Berman Guardian; because of steadiness, good performance, and its practice of buying high-quality companies at low prices.
Investment philosophy: Be patient, look for value, and keep your risk levels reasonably low
What I like about MFI: The newsgroup posters are incredibly well-informed, articulate, and friendly.

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