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Add a Tax Break to Your Tank: Hybrids

If high gas prices have you thinking about buying a more fuel-efficient car, youll want to learn more about the tax credit available to Americans who buy qualifying hybrid vehicles. Hybrids combine an electric motor with a gasoline-powered engine, producing fewer emissions.

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October 2006 Issue

Stock Screens
The Lakonishok Approach to Value Investing: A Payoff for Patience
Can academic theory be put to practice? A University of Illinois finance professor formed an investment management firm using quantitative models to find value companies. A look at the contrarian Lakonishok screen and how it has fared.

AAII Model Portfolios
Shadow Stock Portfolio Up 8.5% Year-to-Date Despite Market Weakness
The small capitalization and value criteria result in a portfolio that has provided significantly higher returns than the indexes.

Portfolio Strategies
The Actively Passive Trend: Indexes Get a Makeover
This year's crop of ETFs highlights a growing trend in index fund investing--an attempt to redefine the index concept. A look at the makeover trend.

Features
The Individual Investor's Guide to Exchange-Traded Funds 2006
Our annual guide this year features 293 exchange-traded funds--portfolio baskets of securities that look like mutual funds but trade like stocks.

Mutual Funds
Web Sites for Exchange-Traded Funds
Where to find up-to-date market and trading information on ETFs.

Departments
Letters to the Editor
Letters: Member questions and comments on recent AAII Journal articles.

First Cut
The First Cut: Defensive Growth
The top 30 stocks passing a simple screen for companies in defensive industries with attractive PEG ratios and earnings growth momentum.

Departments
Briefly Noted
Briefly Noted: Current news items of interest to individual investors.

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October 2006 Issue