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To: Gary L. Kepler who wrote (43756)	7/4/2001 4:50:05 PM
From: freeus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

Happy fourth of July all. I was in a Wells Fargo bank yesterday and saw an interesting flyer. It was about investing in stocks month after month. It had this table: $100 a month from Jan 1990 through Feb 2001 (thus including a few bad periods as well as many good ones). Total invested over the eleven years for each company was the same, $13,400. Now remember this is only $100 a month each month so much of the money was not working during the entire period. Ge: became $68,077 Intc: became $125,145 HD: became $70,730 Msft: became $123,083 WMT: became $50,353. So...I thought, well between my sweetie and I we can afford $500 a month for the next 11 years, but what would bring similar returns? I looked at a long term graph of each and ge had long periods of doing nothing and all of the stocks look quite fully valued. So...what do you think ... maybe in tech qlgc or qcom or maybe even still intc? in home remodeling (I think that field will always make money) low? maybe in bio dna (to choose one that already has a profit and earnings)? sebl perhaps as a tech that still seems strong? maybe an insurance company like afl or agc, although their growth rates don't seem very high... tyc instead of ge as a diversified company that is still growing or maybe even ge itself? I don't know, what do you think? What company will still be strong in 11 years, as the five Wells Fargo had on their list still are? Maybe even csco, it's been beaten down so, I don't think its going out of business. The good thing about this way of investing is there's no angst, you just do automatic buys of the stocks each month. Maybe to reduce commissions (though Brown&Co is still only $5 market order) buy two a month and switch off every other month so all five were being bought every 2-3 months. Of course this would be the money that was NOT in mutual funds minding its own business (vbg). I guess the other question is, were these companies all already established well known companies in 1990? I know GE was, but what about the others? Were they all "known" to be stable and growing...if yes then what would be similar investments today, any of the ones I mentioned? This is hard work these days, I'm not used to it. Freeus