The World Is Your Oyster
By Jeff D. Opdyke

We are offering a high discount due to slightly damage.<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.4pt;line-height:21.0pt;background: #FCFCFC"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.4pt;line-height:21.0pt;background: #FCFCFC"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.4pt;line-height:21.0pt;background: #FCFCFC"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.4pt;line-height:21.0pt;background: #FCFCFC"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.4pt;line-height:21.0pt;background: #FCFCFC">How Jeff D. Opdyke became a successful international investor is an Everyman tale that began thirteen years ago when he discarded conventional wisdom. At the time, Wall Street's pros insisted that average investors buy domestic mutual funds that invest overseas. But Jeff ignored their tepid advice. Instead, he opted for the intrepid, opening bank and brokerage accounts from New Zealand to Hong Kong in order to buy the local stocks he wanted to own, not those that some fund manager deemed worthy.Jeff did so with great insight: People are people no matter whether home is in Madrid, Memphis, or Mumbai. They drink beer and buy homes and the furnishings and appliances to put in them. As hundreds of millions of people around the world strive to move into the middle class, the companies that meet these basic needs are becoming the great investment opportunities of today and tomorrow. Only a fraction of them, however, trade on American stock exchanges.So, armed with simple tools available to you and me (the Internet and an e-mail account), Jeff found companies intimately tied to their local economies but capable of expansion-to America, perhaps, or more important to Asia and other regions of explosive growth. One such company is Fisher andamp; Paykel, a New Zealand-based maker of appliances that over the course of a dozen years has produced a steady stream of dividends and special distributions and has gained more than 17 percent a year for Jeff.<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.4pt;line-height:21.0pt;background: #FCFCFC">