The Post-9/11 Investor

Starting from the awful events of September 11th, author Vivian Lewis, a New Yorker, looks at stocks from around the world impacted by the terrorist attack.

As a financial journalist, just going on doing her job is a way to challenge those who killed thousands of her fellow New Yorkers. Since her professional focus has been on international stocks, it is on foreign companies that she writes. This is not unpatriotic, in a world where help for problems can come from abroad.

Starting from the awful events of September 11th, author Vivian Lewis, a New Yorker, looks at stocks from around the world impacted by the terrorist attack.

As a financial journalist, just going on doing her job is a way to challenge those who killed thousands of her fellow New Yorkers. Since her professional focus has been on international stocks, it is on foreign companies that she writes. This is not unpatriotic, in a world where help for problems can come from abroad.

She starts out with martyred companies, which lost key personnel to the Al-Qaeda suicide bombers, and recommends two of them, an American bond fund and a German biosciences firm.

Then she turns to companies which can help protect people from the biological attack on the United States. She finds companies in Germany, India, and Denmark with strong products against bio-terrorism.

Since the Taliban claimed to be students but opposed the spread of knowledge, her attention was drawn to Internet education stocks. She opted to recommend three of them, run from Britain, Ireland, and Mexico.

Since the terrorist attacks had an immediate negative impact on insurance and reinsurance stocks, she looked at that sector, and found four shares to buy, from Australia, France, Switzerland, and Bermuda.

The result: an international portfolio defying the forces of evil, a group of thirteen companies aiming to make the world safer, healthier, and wiser. This is the real response to divisive terrorist attack.