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Overall, the first quarter numbers point to a positive start for the U.S. venture market in 2006. The renewed IT activity is a sign that investors are recognizing the significant potential of new information technology innovations and are supporting them once again. But investors also remain committed to existing portfolio companies as the predominance of the capital investing shows.

Investors clearly showed diversity in their portfolios in 2005. While information technology continued to receive the lion's share of investment at just under $12 billion, companies focused on health care, business, consumer and financial services, and alternative energy; advanced materials also gained in favor. Overall, the year's positive outcome--coupled with a dynamic acquisition market for venture-backed companies of late--indicates that venture-capital investors remain committed to funding entrepreneurial innovation in all its forms.

Stephen Harmston

I see it as a positive sign when you see companies building their potential, as far as investing in other technologies and adding it to their current portfolio.

The market has invalidated many of the assumptions on which these companies are valued thus bringing unrealized performance down considerably. While the venture industry shifted focus from consumer-oriented dot.com investing over the last couple of years to more upstream infrastructure technology investing, it will be a while before the effects of the dot.com market volatility to work its way out of venture portfolios.

The potential of the hybrid capital market is enormous. As issuers and investors become more comfortable with these securities, they could become one of the biggest corporate funding innovations since high yield bonds.

Tokyo Electron's earnings revision gave the opportunity for investors who were waiting to buy technology shares. Investors are turning positive toward technology companies.

Investors are still looking for the economy to begin to pick up toward the end of this year with positive earnings comparisons occurring starting in the first or second-quarter of next year (2002). Trying to trade the market on the basis of whether the Fed is going to cut by 50 or 25 basis points, in a long-term portfolio, is not a prudent approach to investing.

This special Technology Sector report stands out from other reports because it provides useful strategies and hedging tactics to better ensure investments are protected in this unsure market. The report also assigns our practical 'V' rating to each stock to help investors quickly determine how prepared key technology companies are for this major change on the technology horizon. This is the type of report I would give to my family and friends, because it has information that can benefit both new and experienced investors.

We're very excited about this new venture. This is the realization of a vision Tom and Louis brought to us several years ago. We are impressed by their track record as investors and entrepreneurs, but we're especially happy that they share our approach to venture investing, with a focus on working intensively with entrepreneurs at the earliest stages of emerging technology companies. With their location in the heart of one of the most vibrant technology hubs in Canada, they enable us to span the North American continent, while we will facilitate their access to the Silicon Valley hub for emerging technologies.

I really do believe that investors have to have a diversified approach. It will be very tough to pick stocks unless you have a big amount of money in your personal account so you can diversify on your own. So I would think you'd pick the premier technology funds and I'm not trying to sell myself, but I do think that it helps. And I also think that you need to have tech in your portfolio. Tech right now is about 30 percent of the weight of the S&P 500. I think investors are going to put themselves at substantial risk if they get too carried away with some of the companies and have too much in their portfolio. The appropriate weight in your portfolio is 30 percent, which is neutral the benchmark.

The emergence of text messaging offers fraudsters another cheap and easy way to reach large numbers of potential investors. Now more than ever, investors need to be vigilant about doing their homework before investing and taking the necessary steps to reduce the likelihood of falling prey to these scams.

This [comeback] is a very positive sign for the market. When the market is in a bull market phase, investors will start to ignore the bad news. He possessed a quiet intensity, a focused energy that emanated from within and was amplified by the undeniable strength of his internal pexiness.

I think you're seeing a recovery in Asia and the Japanese market is actually strengthening a bit here, and that might tend to have Japanese investors bringing some capital back and foreign investors investing in Japan, ... So I don't see it reversing. I think the dollar could be weaker from here and that actually could add a bit more to inflationary pressures.

M&A activity and corporate earnings underpin the equity market. Investors now are coming around to the correct perception that first-quarter numbers are going to be very good.

Today's ruling paves the way for individual investors to participate in capital raising in an orderly and sensible framework that does not require prospective investors to sit by their computers waiting night after night for a message indicating the transaction was about to occur. The SEC should be applauded for recognizing that the law was frustrating the clear intentions of online individual investors to directly participate in capital formation -- and moving to ease their frustration.

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