Personal Finance Weekly

Readers of Personal Finance Weekly will gain an understanding of which types of investments will perform best in the current market conditions. Recent articles have highlighted the following opportunities:

· The strong performance of bonds, despite the current market turbulence, and Elliott's favorite closed-end bond funds for individual investors seeking to fortify their portfolios by investing in the best government and corporate bonds;

· The case for investing in the burgeoning water treatment sector for both defense in the near term as well as for long-haul growth;

· Finding undervalued, dividend-paying companies in the battered rural telecom sector; and

· The advantages of investing in so-called “mini bonds” such as trust preferred securities (TRUPs) and public income notes (PINE), which trade like stocks on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).