Article: International Funds Losing Their Luster

Shaken by a frightening series of political and economic disasters, some Americans are having second thoughts about international stock investing, the hot "new" Wall Street concept of 1993 and 1994.

The mutual fund industry's chief trade group reported Monday that international funds experienced a $38 million net outflow in January, the first time in four years that shareholders redeemed more shares than they bought.

While tiny relative to the $96 billion in assets held by international funds, the January outflow nonetheless was a sharp reversal of the trend of 1993 and 1994, when investors poured an unprecedented $26.3 billion and $27.2 billion in net new money into international ...

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