Understanding mutual fund loads and pricing structures
Financial Focus explains loads and no loads in mutual funds, with dual pricing proposed as a 1990s option. It notes front end and ongoing fees, investor suspicion, and the need to read the prospectus to understand costs. Keith Johnson of E.D. Jones & Co. provides the perspective.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Upton
Sam Chandoha
Shareholder Communications Corps
SCC
Chandoha
Keith Johnson
E.D. Jones & Co
Irrigation concerns push Kansas farmers toward dryland farming
In Garden City area, rising fuel costs and dropping water tables drive farmers to consider dryland farming. At the Southwest Kansas Research Extension Center Fall Field Day, researchers showcased drought tolerant crops and watering schedules to ease shifts from irrigation as wells dry up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garden City
Kan
Rodger Bank
Eye County
Southwest Kansas Research Extension Center
Kansas
Funk
Jim ‘Schaffer
Garden
Ogallala
Charles Norwood
Norwood
Kassebaum slams furlough tactic as dangerous pressure
Senator Nancy Kassebaum frowns on Bush administration furlough notices as a dangerous game of chicken to pressure Congress into budget cuts. She rejects sequester plans, urges tax and spending measures, notes economy stall and calls for Fed rate relief while stressing UN-backed actions in the Middle East and Saddam Hussein’s Kuwait crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lew Ferguson
Associated Press
Topeka
Kan
Nancy Kassebaum
Bush
Congress
Kassebaum
Richard Darman
Federal Office of Management and Budget
Federal Reserve Board
Fed
Middle East
Smoking ban trend tightens in Kansas City firms
Kansas City employers move toward total bans on smoking with United Telecommunications banning smoking in all buildings affecting 20,000 employees. Hallmark Cards and KG&E also tighten rules as cities restrict smoking in public spaces, while officials cite health costs and secondhand smoke concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City, Mo
Kansas City
United Telecommunications Inc
US Sprint Communications Corp
Dave Gendh
United Telecommunications
Sid Courson
United Telecom
Missouri
Kansas
King
Terri March
Kansas City Health Department
Ifn
Paraesha A
Wichita
Kansas Gas and Electric Co
Lyle Koerper
Kg&e
Dick Kurtenbach
The
American Civil Liberties Union
U.S
Kurtenbach
Weekend Market Report Highlights Mixed Commodity Movements
Grain and soybean futures dipped while energy and some metals rose and fell. September wheat at 2.62 a bushel and corn near 2.43. crude oil up to 27.32 a barrel. gold around 332.30 per ounce. orange juice down to 1.5925 per pound. Wall Street edged higher as volume cooled ahead of Labor Day with notable gains in Exxon and IBM and cautious trading overall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Board of Trade
New York Mercantile Exchange
Eta Commodity Exchange
Alger
New York Cotton Exchange
Wall Street
Toys R Us
Wilshire Associates
NYSE
Standard & Poor
S&p
American Stock Exchange
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Financial Focus
Andrews Air Force Base
Washington, D.C
Bob Dole
White House
OMB
Gramm-Rudman- Hollings
Iraq
Saddam Hussein
Kuwait
United Nations
Jim Hogan
W. Tecumseh
Ottawa
Farm Bureau
Weekend Market Report
Ilinsco
Private Ledger
Persian Gulf
Labor Department
Federal Reserve
Exxon
Atlantic Richfield
Mobil
Amoco
Philip Morris
Gen+eral Motors
American Express
Merck
International Business Machines
Bank of New England
Discoun
Joe Shawne
Deny Pickett
Stark Rk Sigurdson
Ottawa Herald
Ottawa University
S. Cedar
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