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Friday, November 20, 2009
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Department:Investment Strategies
In basketball, the presence of a star player on the court can be an effective catalyst for layup opportunities, because defenders lather so much attention on the star that they occasionally fail to notice a teammate standing alone beneath the basket.
I am often asked: Is now a good time to own gold?
Governments and central banks around the world responded to last winter's global financial crisis with unprecedented fiscal stimuli and monetary easing.
I recently cleaned out some old files in my home office and pulled out some account statements from 2000.
Some say timing is everything, but being paid to wait has its advantages. Long-term investors weighing participation in an uncertain market environment may want to consider a classic way to buy time and potentially lower risk — with convertibles.
Nowadays, it is common to hear financial pundits talking about their expectations for inflation.
A number of financial trends have made emerging economies the high-growth option for international investing.
For investors, recent changes in U.S. health care laws offer a classic example of trying to make lemonade from lemons.
In my conversations with a wide range of advisers, the death of modern portfolio theory keeps coming up. The market debacle of 2008 is said to have sounded the death knell for all of modern finance.
The BRIC group — Brazil, Russia, India and China — for a number of years has functioned as a proxy for large developing markets with an attractive long-term return potential.
Investors have responded enthusiastically in recent months to government stimulus plans and signs of renewed economic activity, triggering a resounding risk rally.
On a recent trip to Singapore, my wife and I took a cable car ride between two islands.
For retirement investors who are looking for long-term solutions to rebuild nest eggs, investing in U.S. companies that benefit from the newfound prosperity of people around the globe is one solution.
A growing emphasis on absolute-return strategies is leaving some analysts advising caution, even though the returns often look good on paper.
Everyone knows that bond ratings can be inaccurate.
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