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Vivian Lewis is editor and founder of Global Investing, Minutewoman, and ADRGuide newsletters (all available at Global-Investing.com). Vivian Lewis' ability to pick foreign stocks is aided by her connections with the worldwide investment community, especially in Europe, where she was a financial writer and analyst for many years. Vivian Lewis researches the companies involved, including their business strategies and market positions, their top people and management practices, their industries, their opportunities, and their balance sheets.

Global Investing is a monthly newsletter for Americans seeking to internationalize their portfolios. Global Investing covers international stocks, bonds, closed-end and exchange-traded funds, and American Depositary Receipts. Global-Investing.com subscribers receive a detailed chart analyzing each investment in their portfolios, showing its initial and current price, gain, current yield, and Vivian Lewis' advice (usually either "buy" or "sell").

Global Investing portfolios are divided into:

• Buy and Hold Portfolio for wealth preservation and current income.

• Speculative Portfolio for investors who can accept some risk in exchange for a high reward.

• Closed-End Fund Portfolio for investors seeking maximum safety through diversification.

Minutewoman provides subscribers with information about offshore and hedge funds, start-ups and pre-IPO companies, non-ADR foreign stocks, and convertible and high-yield bonds. These are available to qualified investors who can buy directly on foreign markets. The minimum investment ranges from $10,000 to $250,000. Minutewoman is delivered whenever there is something to report. As with Global Investing, Vivian Lewis waits until Minutewoman subscribers have a chance to invest, then she invests with them.

ADRs (American Depositary Receipts) enable investors, who are principally but not exclusively from the US, to trade foreign stocks as if they were issued by US companies. The ADRGuide database lists about 2,500 ADRs, and includes information such as the name, address, ticker symbol, and country of origin for the company; its depositary bank; ratio of ordinary shares to ADRs; and classes of shares, if multiple. This information is used to identify profitable investment opportunities.

Global Investing
1040 First Ave.
New York, NY 10022
vivian@global-investing.com
1-800-388-4237

The above description was assembled using information from the publisher's site. All registered or unregistered trademarks referenced herein are the property of their respective owners, and no trademark rights to the same are claimed.

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