"Ms. Beringer has extensive experience defending companies in high stakes technology and intellectual property disputes, with particular expertise representing clients in the technology, media, Internet, and entertainment industries.
His fund has a 30 percent-plus stake in technology.
It happens to have a 35percentt stake in technology.
The university will retain a small stake and technology links with the company.
Prompting from shareholders led Mr. Brady to increase his stake in technology stocks, alongside his traditional holdings like Mattel and Walt Disney.
In the last six months, Mr. Fine said, he has reduced the fund's stake in technology companies to 23percentt of assets from more than 35percentt.
Two big electronics components distributors account for nearly all the fund's 24.4percentt stake in technology -- Arrow Electronics and its chief rival, Avnet.
The Fidelity Magellan Fund raised its stake in technology investments for the first time in eight months in April and cut its cash holdings in half.
The Market Came to Them An 80percentt stake in technology stocks, with a sprinkling of biotechnology issues, pushed the $1.22 billion Kopp Emerging Growth fund into the No. 3 place for the quarter, with a return of 42.3percentt.
Mr. Kaufman, a 53-year-old volunteer fire chief in Sandy Spring, another community here in the corridor between Baltimore and Washington, bought 100 shares of Pfizer after Mr. Mason persuaded him not to add to an overweighted stake in technology.
The managers of the Federated Kaufmann fund, Lawrence Auriana and Hans Utsch, said a decision they made in 2000 -- to cut the fund's stake in technology stocks to 12percentt from 40percentt -- helped it avoid the major losses experienced by its growth-stock peers over the last two years.
