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To: yzfool who wrote (461)	11/5/1999 5:50:00 AM
From: Thean	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 669

Kenvin Landis's scheduled weekend talk does not include TXCC. Top Fund Manager Kevin Landis Keynotes Tech Stocks Forum for San Diego Investors Nov. 7 Qualcomm Stake in Landis' Technology Leaders Fund Soars on Earnings SAN DIEGO, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM - news), on the strength of soaring earnings and the announcement of a 4-for-1 stock split, produced smiles on the faces of thousands of investors today, but few have bigger smiles than Kevin Landis, portfolio manager for the Technology Leaders Fund (Nasdaq: TLFQX - news). Qualcomm is the fund's top holding. Individual investors in San Diego can hear Landis discuss Qualcomm and other technology stocks on Sunday, Nov. 7 when he keynotes the 3rd Annual Informed Investors/Worth Electronics & Technology Stocks Forum at the Shelter Pointe Hotel. Silicon Valley-based Landis, regarded as one of the nation's top tech fund managers, also holds major stakes in other San Diego-based companies, including Applied Micro Circuits (Nasdaq: AMCC - news) and Cymer (Nasdaq: CYMI - news). Landis is founder and CEO of Firsthand Funds, www.firsthandfunds.com. Landis' Technology Value Fund is ranked No. 1 for the five-year period ending June 30, 1999, with annualized total return of 50.62% for the five-year period ending June 30, 1999, according to the Morningstar Principia Pro(TM) database. The Technology Value Fund invests primarily in companies in the electronic technology and medical technology fields. In addition to Landis, the other keynote speaker is Arun Veerappan, Senior Analyst for Communications and Semiconductor Devices at BancBoston Robertson Stephens. Veerappan is one of the top analysts in the communications, broadband and semiconductor device fields. Also, there will be analyst-style presentations from senior executives of nine technology companies: ATMI (Nasdaq: ATMI - news); Bell Microproducts (Nasdaq: BELM - news); Caere Corp. (Nasdaq: CAER - news); Coherent (Nasdaq: COHR - news); Genesis Microchip (Nasdaq: GNSS - news), Hi/fn (Nasdaq: HIFN - news); Power Integrations (Nasdaq: POWI - news), Trimble Navigation (Nasdaq: TRMB - news); and TriQuint Semiconductor (Nasdaq: TQNT - news). The Forum, co-sponsored by Worth magazine, runs from 8:30-4:30 p.m. at the Shelter Pointe Hotel. Lunch is included. Cost is $40 prepaid; $55 at the door. Get information or register at www.informedinvestors.com or call 800-992-4683. InformedInvestors.com is the leading producer of online and offline industry-specific investment conferences for individual investors and offers a growing stable of resources for in-depth sector-analysis.