Dear Pat: Thank you very much for your valuable advice. I was wondering about the following fund, and what your opinion is: ING Risk Managed Natural Resources Fund. Looking forward to your response. Thank you!

ING Risk Management Natural Resources Fund, $15.92, symbol IRR on New York (Units outstanding: 22.4 million; Market cap: $357.4 million), is a closed-end fund that holds stocks of companies in the energy, natural-resources and basic-materials industries.

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Moody’s Corp. $53 – New York symbol MCO

MOODY’S CORP. $53 (New York symbol MCO; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Finance sector; WSSF Rating: Average) provides credit ratings on bonds and other securities issued by roughly 200,000 commercial and government entities in over 100 countries. The company has about 40% of the global credit rating… Read More

Investors See Value In Data Providers

Demand for financial and business information is ballooning. A great deal of this information is available for free on the Internet, but users have doubts about its accuracy. So they are willing to pay for data they can trust from reputable sources, such as these… Read More