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- From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
- Subject: Re: When is Israel Closed End Fund going public?
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:32:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.203239.29178@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <a4MS02cY2bx401@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <Uf3bGcy00iV1M1ja9_@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- In article <Uf3bGcy00iV1M1ja9_@andrew.cmu.edu> Joel Bloch <jb6k+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >There is already one Israel fund out there. It was released about a
- >month ago by Prudential and there was a controversy because it dropped
- >very quickly to a discount to asset value. Closed end funds usually drop
- >to a discount but not so quickly.
-
- This is First Israel Fund (ISL - NYSE) offered at 15 but with an
- underwriters fee of over $1, typical for underwriters. So it isn't
- surprising it dropped below 14 immediately. It did drop below 12
- but regained much of that. Now at 12.375.
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- Art Kamlet a_s_kamlet@att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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