| AS COMPETITION IN THE MUTUAL FUND BUSINESS GROWS INCREASINGLY INTENSE MORE PLAYERS IN THE INDUSTRY APPEAR WILLING TO SACRIFICE INTEGRITY IN THE NAME OF PERFORMANCE (4T0C0201) |
| FOR A TWO TRILLION DOLLAR BUSINESS BUILT ON PUBLIC CONFIDENCE THIS TREND IS DISHEARTENING AT BEST AND DOWNRIGHT DANGEROUS AT WORST (4T0C0202) |
| SO FAR THIS YEAR THE { INDUSTRY |
| and in the latest blow to public confidence in the funds someone at industry titan fidelity investments decided last friday to send newspapers thursday |
| in the ensuing public humiliation suffered by fidelity this week as it was forced to fess up to its intentional mistake the company has sought to make clear that nobody bought or sold a fund direct from fidelity at the wrong price (4t0c0205) |
| THOUGH NEWSPAPERS LAST SATURDAY UNKNOWINGLY LISTED THURSDAY PRICES FOR ABOUT ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY OF FIDELITY |
| BUT THAT DOESN |
| THE UNIDENTIFIED FIDELITY EMPLOYEE WHO MADE THE DECISION TO GO WITH INCORRECT PRICES SHOULD SIMPLY HAVE LISTED THEM AS NOT AVAILABLE (4T0C0208) |
| THAT WOULD BE STANDARD FIDELITY PROCEDURE SAID JANE JAMIESON SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AT THE BOSTON BASED COMPANY (4T0C0209) |
| FIDELITY |
| THE PROBLEM IS THAT IT CAN BECOME VERY TEMPTING TO BEND OR BREAK THE RULES IN THE NAME OF STAYING COMPETITIVE (4T0C020B) |
| TAKE FIDELITY |
| SOMEONE THERE HAD TO MAKE A FAST DECISION WHEN A SOFTWARE PROBLEM RESULTED IN BOTCHED FUND PRICES LAST FRIDAY SHORTLY BEFORE THE COMPANY WAS DUE TO REPORT THE DAY |
| IF FIDELITY HAD PROVIDED NO PRICES FOR MOST OF ITS FUNDS THE COMPANY WOULD HAVE APPEARED TO BE HAVING A PROBLEM THAT WASN |
| MOREOVER INVESTORS WHO COMPARE FUND PRICES AND PERFORMANCE BY USING WEEKEND NEWSPAPERS WOULD HAVE HAD LITTLE DATA ON FIDELITY FUNDS PERHAPS COSTING FIDELITY SOME NEW INVESTMENT (4T0C020F) |
| YIELDS ON TAXABLE MONEY MARKET MUTUAL FUNDS ROSE SLIGHTLY IN THE LATEST WEEK WHILE TAX EXEMPT YIELDS DROPPED (4T1C0201) |
| I. B. C. DONOGHUE |
| COMPOUND YIELDS ASSUME REINVESTMENT OF DIVIDENDS (4T1C0203) |
| THE AVERAGE SEVEN DAY COMPOUND YIELD ON TAX FREE MONEY FUNDS FELL TO TWO POINT ZERO THREE PERCENT FROM TWO POINT TWO ONE PERCENT THE NEWSLETTER SAID (4T1C0204) |
| THE LATEST YIELD IS EQUIVALENT TO A TAXABLE THREE POINT ONE SEVEN PERCENT FOR { @ / AN } INVESTOR IN THE THIRTY SIX PERCENT TAX BRACKET AND TO THREE POINT THREE SIX PERCENT FOR SOMEONE PAYING THIRTY NINE POINT SIX PERCENT IN TAXES (4T1C0205) |
| TAX EXEMPT YIELDS TYPICALLY DROP AT THIS TIME OF YEAR BECAUSE OF A REDUCED SUPPLY OF SECURITIES AS MANY MUNICIPALITIES REACH THE JUNE THIRTY END OF THEIR FISCAL YEAR SAID WALTER FRANK CHIEF ECONOMIST OF THE MONEY FUND REPORT (4T1C0206) |
| TAXABLE YIELDS MEANWHILE HAVE BEEN RISING STEADILY FOR SEVERAL MONTHS IN RESPONSE TO INCREASES IN SHORT TERM INTEREST RATES (4T1C0207) |
| MONEY FUND REPORT SAYS THE AVERAGE SEVEN DAY SIMPLE YIELD ON TAXABLE FUNDS ROSE TO THREE POINT FIVE NINE PERCENT FROM THREE POINT FIVE SEVEN PERCENT IN THE LATEST WEEK WHILE THE AVERAGE THIRTY DAY SIMPLE YIELD INCREASED TO THREE POINT FIVE THREE PERCENT FROM THREE POINT FOUR SIX PERCENT AND THE AVERAGE THIRTY DAY COMPOUND YIELD WENT TO THREE POINT FIVE NINE PERCENT FROM THREE POINT FIVE TWO PERCENT (4T1C0208) |
| ALTHOUGH ASSETS OF THE TAXABLE FUNDS TRACKED BY MONEY FUND REPORT REMAINED STABLE AT ABOUT FOUR HUNDRED SEVENTY TWO POINT SIX SEVEN BILLION DOLLARS TWELVE FUNDS THAT JUST BEGAN REPORTING TO THE NEWSLETTER ADDED THREE POINT SEVEN FIVE BILLION DOLLARS TO ASSETS OFFSETTING WITHDRAWALS FROM THE SIX HUNDRED SIXTY FUNDS THAT WERE ALREADY INCLUDED (4T1C0209) |
| INDIVIDUAL INVESTORS WITHDREW JUST OVER TWO BILLION DOLLARS FROM THE FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY TWO FUNDS AND INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS PULLED ABOUT ONE POINT SEVEN BILLION DOLLARS FROM TWO HUNDRED EIGHT FUNDS ACCORDING TO THE NEWSLETTER |
| ASSETS OF TAX FREE FUNDS DECLINED BY NINE HUNDRED FORTY FIVE POINT SIX MILLION DOLLARS TO ONE HUNDRED THIRTEEN POINT NINE ONE BILLION DOLLARS MONEY FUNDS REPORT SAID (4T1C020B) |
| HOWEVER FOUR NEW FUNDS ADDED ABOUT THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY ONE MILLION DOLLARS TO ASSETS INDICATING THAT INVESTORS IN THREE HUNDRED FIFTY ONE OTHER TAX FREE FUNDS ACTUALLY WITHDREW ABOUT ONE POINT THREE BILLION DOLLARS (4T1C020C) |
| AVERAGE MATURITY OF THE TAXABLE FUNDS |
| AVERAGE MATURITY OF THE TAX EXEMPT PORTFOLIOS PRIMARILY SHORT TERM MUNICIPAL SECURITIES LENGTHENED BY TWO DAYS TO FORTY FOUR DAYS (4T1C020E) |
| TODAY |
| DAVID BROOKS COULDN |
| WHAT |
| COULD ONE VACATION IN THE SOUTH OF NEW JERSEY (4T1C020I) |
| I THINK NOT (4T1C020J) |
| SO TOO WITH FRANCE (4T1C020K) |
| THE PRACTICE IS ALMOST AS ANNOYING AS GIVING ONESELF THREE PUBLIC NAMES SUCH AS THE ARCHITECT FRANK WRIGHT OR FIRST LADY HILLARY CLINTON BUT THAT |
| COTT CORPORATION THE CANADIAN BOTTLER OF PRIVATE LABEL SOFT DRINKS THAT HAS MESMERIZED THE STOCK MARKET WITH ITS MARKETING GAINS IN RECENT YEARS NOW HAS THE SHORT SELLERS ON ITS TAIL (4T2C0201) |
| ITS SHARES FELL FOUR POINT EIGHT SEVEN FIVE DOLLARS CANADIAN ON WEDNESDAY TO TWENTY POINT ONE TWO FIVE DOLLARS ON THE TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE A DECLINE OF TWENTY PERCENT (4T2C0202) |
| EARLY LAST WEEK THE STOCK WAS TRADING ABOVE THIRTY DOLLARS (4T2C0203) |
| THE COMPANY |
| MANY ANALYSTS ARE SAYING THAT COTT WHILE STILL EXPANDING RAPIDLY WILL FALL SHORT OF ITS PROJECTED GROWTH RATE BECAUSE OF INCREASINGLY AGGRESSIVE PRICE CUTTING BY ITS TWO LARGEST AMERICAN RIVALS COCA COLA AND PEPSI COLA (4T2C0205) |
| COTT HAS ALSO BEEN DOGGED BY ALLEGATIONS THAT IT HAS INFLATED ITS DECLARED PROFITS BY USING UNORTHODOX ACCOUNTING PRACTICES AND THAT IT IS RUNNING OUT OF CASH (4T2C0206) |
| THE COMPANY REJECTS THE CHARGES AS DELIBERATE MISINFORMATION PUT OUT BY SHORT SELLERS SPECULATORS WHO SELL BORROWED SHARES HOPING THE MARKET PRICE WILL FALL BEFORE THEY HAVE TO REPAY THE SHARES |
| COTT HAS EVEN TAKEN SOME OF ITS DETRACTORS TO COURT (4T2C0208) |
| A MEMORANDUM FROM A TORONTO RESEARCH FIRM EQUITY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES INCORPORATED QUESTIONING THE HEALTH OF COTT |
| IN ADDITION QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN RAISED BY COTT |
| THE REPORT MUST INCLUDE FULL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND THE ASSURANCE OF ITS OUTSIDE AUDITORS COOPERS AND LYBRAND THAT THE STATEMENTS CONFORM TO GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES (4T2C020B) |
| COTT INVITED SOME CANADIAN AND AMERICAN ANALYSTS TO ITS TORONTO HEADQUARTERS WEDNESDAY TO TALK ABOUT THE COMPANY |
| A UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PROFESSOR ROMAN WEIL WAS BROUGHT IN TO HELP FIELD QUESTIONS ON THE ACCOUNTING MATTERS (4T2C020D) |
| THE HOST AT THE MEETING WHICH WAS CLOSED TO THE PRESS WAS THE COMPANY |
| ACCORDING TO JACQUES KAVAFIAN AN ANALYST AT LEVESQUE BEAUBIEN GEOFFRION INCORPORATED A MONTREAL BROKERAGE HOUSE REPRESENTED AT THE MEETING PENCER AND OTHER SENIOR EXECUTIVES { ACKNOWLEDGED / ACKNOWLEDGE } THAT THE COMPANY |
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