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To: KS who wrote (778)	7/9/1999 12:27:00 PM
From: Probart	Respond to of 835

Premier Stock Picker Garrett Van Wagoner, Internet Columnist Larry Dignan On Today's Informed Investors Radio Forum SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jul 8, 1999 (BUSINESS WIRE via COMTEX) -- If any mutual fund manager has rolled with the volatile technology stocks, it'sbeen Garrett Van Wagoner, founder and captain of the San Francisco-based Van Wagoner Funds(www.vanwagoner.com). Despite a difficult 1997 when the Van Wagoner funds shed 20% of their value, performance in 1996 and 1998 were in the top quartile of mutual fund performance and thus far in 1999, results have been nothing less than platinum with results in the top 1%, according to Lipper. Of the five Van Wagoner funds, the worst 1999 year-to-date performance is the Mid-Cap Fund (Nasdaq: VWMDX), up 53.5%. The best performer is the flagship Emerging Growth Fund (Nasdaq: VWEGX), up 114.2% through July 7. The other three Van Wagoner Funds are blistering the field as well: the Post Venture Fund (Nasdaq: VWPVX) is up 104.2%; Technology Fund (Nasdaq: VWTKX), up 99.6%; and Micro-Cap Fund (Nasdaq: VWMCX), up 86.5%. Van Wagoner is today's special guest on the Informed Investors Radio Forum weekly radio program, airing from 2-3 p.m. Eastern time (11 a.m.-noon PDT). The show is carried live on the Internet via the Realplayer on your PC. To tune in, visit www.informedinvestors.com, and click the link. Internet listeners can email questions to cohost Tim Quast at tim@informedinvestors.com. The other guest is Larry Dignan, editor of Ziff Davis Inter@ctive Investor. Dignan covers tech stocks and writes a daily column called The Day Ahead, a commentary on the hottest stocks of the tech sector. Van Wagoner's style is pure growth stock investing. Favored industries are communications, computers, electronics, energy, medical and telecommunications. Representative among companies in the funds, according to the March 31 report, include Aware (Nasdaq: AWRE), Exodus Communications (Nasdaq: EXDS), Covad (Nasdaq: COVD), Metromedia Fiber (Nasdaq: MFNX), OnHealth Network (Nasdaq: ONHN) andiVillage(Nasdaq: IVIL). In addition to its weekly radio show, Informed Investors Forum is the leading producer of industry-specific investment conferences for the retail investment community. The next is the Fourth Annual Semiconductor Stocks Forum on Saturday, July 10 in Palo Alto, Calif. Analysts Charles Boucher and Theodore O'Neill are the keynote speakers. The presenting companies are ATMI (Nasdaq: ATMI) and 3Dlabs (Nasdaq: TDDD). Details are at www.informedinvestors.com.