To help, here are some grade-A foreign stocks: Dutch based ABN Amro (22, ABN, www.abnamro.com) is a leading financial services firm, spanning banking, investment banking, insurance and asset management.
Here are four more foreign stocks I like as I look from 1998 to 2000: English-based but globally run, Rio Tinto (49, RTP — FORBES, Jan 12) is the world's second-largest metals and mining firm, spanning 40 countries and every continent.
Austria's entry, designed by the Vienna-based architecture firms SPAN and Zeytinoglu, is a curved structure clad in 10 million porcelain tiles that allude to the long tradition of chinaware exported from China to Europe.
To mitigate risk, BioVeda China Fund's investee firms span the life sciences – industrial biotechnology, biologics, logistics and medical devices – and share the characteristic of leveraging China's large domestic demand.
It pioneered offshore operations when it began working in America in 1973 and now offers services to firms spanning insurance, telecoms, retail and transport.
Initially six firms, spanning a variety of what were expected to be mature, highly competitive industries likely to feature confrontation strategies, were recruited for participation.
"Local champion firms now span all sectors, from industrials to consumer to services," the report laments.
Paul's contributions to the firm have spanned nearly a half century.
Marriage and motherhood were followed by administrative positions with a defense contractor and law firm that spanned fifty years.
During Mr Lee's reign, the sales of the group comprising 59 firms that span shipbuilding, sports teams and shopping malls, along with its famed consumer-electronics division grew from around $17 billion to almost $160 billion, equivalent to 18% of the country's GDP.
