Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That helps explain why we are hearing less Schadenfreude over the discomfort of Wall Street yuppies than in past corrections.) A striking 57% of all household assets today are allocated to equities. Small wonder: the market has doubled just since 1994. But these investors are about to get account statements showing declines of 20% to 30%. Even if they have been in the black over the past 12 months, not to mention the past few years, it will be a shock to be reminded, for the first time in years, that stocks can go down as well...
...thing to do is to sit back and wait," says Stephanie Rubin, 52, an executive with a search firm in Chicago who has about $300,000 in stocks. "If it's down 25% on paper, it doesn't bother me because it's money tied up in an IRA account. I'm not going to touch this money till...
RONALD REAGAN Edmund Morris (The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt) has spent 13 years on Dutch, his account of another Republican President...
...return to stocks in the postwar period has been about 11%--far more than for any other financial asset. But as last week reminded us, we do get bear markets. If you'll need the money sooner than three years, it belongs in a bank CD, a money-market account, a short-term bond fund, or possibly a Guaranteed Investment Contract...
...mutual funds, which hold high-yielding debt securities that can be turned into stock if the market rises far enough; or preferred stock, which carries secure, higher-than-normal yields and is relatively immune to stock market gyrations. If you really want to run for cover, a money-market account is the place. Long-term bonds can be a safe haven from stocks but carry their own risks. They represent a bet on stable or falling interest rates, a great hedge against recession...