But yesterday's prices and the promise of an upturn lured her into becoming a first-time investor.

That first-time investor "is a customer who needs some hand-holding," she said.

Many first-time investors in Britain are finding out that stocks can go down as well as up.

No evidence has emerged, he and other experts said in recent interviews, that these first-time investors have been permanently frightened away.

And others might come from the panicked reaction of first-time investors to a market correction or interest rate spike.

The offer is limited to first-time investors in the fund and to one account a household.

The couple said they were first-time investors and bought stock yesterday, figuring it was "a good opportunity because the market was so low."

A. With the bursting of the technology and equity bubble more generally, a lot of first-time investors that came in have pulled out.

For most first-time investors in Poland, price-to-earnings ratios are an abstract concept.

Each month thousands of first-time investors enter the market.