The Lost Honeymoon
To the Editor:
After searching through your January 29 issue in search of closed-end fund discounts and premiums, I finally paid attention to the dastardly "To Our Readers" note indicating that the list wouldn't appear.
Let's see, you had room to run pictures of four members of the Roundtable, who, Meryl Buchanan the notable exception, are hardly eye candy. You also had plenty of room to give us quotes on variable annuities (big yawn), plus pages of hedgefund performance for the 12 wealthy people gullible enough to use such products. But for closed-ends -- the one consistent source of investment bargains, week after week, which can be bought by modest and well-heeled investors alike -- you have no room at the inn?
Shame! I still love Barron's most of the time, but the honeymoon is over.
MICHAEL D. BURKE
Houston
We're sorry. From time to time, for production reasons, we can't include all of our usual stats. And regardless of what we omit, someone is unhappy. In fact, some annuity and hedge-fund fans just might consider closed-ends big yawns. And not eye candy, either --EDITOR. |
