New Perspective Funds’ ability to capitalize on investment opportunities around the world again proved beneficial in fiscal 2013. The value of your holdings increased 12.6% if, like most shareholders, you reinvested the two dividend payments totaling 20 cents a share — one of 13 cents a share in December 2012, and another of 7 cents […] Read more

This is the gateway of gateways. Walt Whitman called New York Harbor “the great place of the western continent, the heart, the brain, the main spring of the New World.” To enter the harbor is to enter America. In fact, it is the Golden Door to new life, the outward and visible sign of the […] Read more

This is the gateway of gateways. Walt Whitman called New York Harbor “the great place of the western continent, the heart, the brain, the main spring of the New World.” To enter the harbor is to enter America. In fact, it is the Golden Door to new life, the outward and visible sign of the […] Read more

Let’s begin our tour here, by the statue of William Tecumseh Sherman on Fifty-Ninth Street and Fifth Avenue. You are standing in the midst of the Upper East Side – justifiably considered New York’s “Gold Coast” with Fifth Avenue its “Millionaires’ Row”. It is in this neighborhood that Lady Caroline Astor countenanced the four hundred […] Read more

New Zealand has to be seen to be believed. Its unusual cities are gateways to the dramatically beautiful countryside, with superb open spaces, emerald hills, and snow-tipped alpine mountains. It is also a land of wonderful waters, waterfalls, geysers, endless inland seas, and a coastline bordered by miles of broad, clean beaches. Since it’s a […] Read more

New Zealand has to be seen to be believed. Its unusual cities are gateways to the dramatically beautiful countryside, with superb open spaces, emerald hills, and snow-tipped alpine mountains. It is also a land of wonderful waters, waterfalls, geysers, endless inland seas, and a coastline bordered by miles of broad, clean beaches. Since it’s a […] Read more

The Cerro Grande fire began as a “controlled burn”… Designed to limit the power of future wildfires by burning away brush from uninhabited rocky areas. But low humidity and sustained high winds of up 60 miles per hour — fed the flames and spread the fire over more than 47,000 acres. Today, about 60 percent […] Read more

Millions of people tuned in last night to see if they had picked the lucky numbers. At stake: a jackpot worth 363 million dollars. An estimated 30-40 million Americans bought tickets for the so-called big game — a lottery sponsored and managed by seven states — Georgia, Virginia, Illinois, Michigan, Maryland, new jersey and Massachusetts. […] Read more

You know all the reasons you turn to OPB. Those are the same reasons why it’s worthy of your investment. We wouldn’t be here without your support –It adds up to the largest share of the funding that pays for everything you hear on OPB. For instance, did you know that a single day of […] Read more