Word: assets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the freshmen will be called upon to produce from day one, Harvard coach Steve Locker still believes that the Crimson's greatest asset will be the leadership of its three seniors, Lundquist, Williams and Dupuis...
...awesome and is going to be an unbelievable asset to all the Harvard programs with the weight room," said Women's Tennis Coach Gordan Graham. "It will help immensely with recruiting. It's like going from the poor house to the penthouse...
...emerging markets was strongest among some of the hedge funds, the high-risk vehicles that often deliver high returns to wealthy investors. After famed investor George Soros lost $2 billion in Russia, John Meriwether's Long-Term Capital Management announced that it had lost $2.1 billion, or half its asset value, so far this year. "Russia and Asia became the trigger for the correction in the U.S. stock market," says David Wyss, chief economist at DRI/McGraw-Hill, a consulting firm. "Although there had already been a softening in earnings over the past few quarters, traders needed to be hit with...
...rolling three-year periods since 1946, the market produced losses only twice--the periods ending in 1974 and 1975, according to the Schwab Center for Investment Research. The average annual 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...
...right to think that this is a moment of complete irrationality," says Bond Snodgrass, an analyst at Warburg Dillon Read in Mexico City. "But this should finally drive home the point: Mexico is no longer just Mexico, Brazil is no longer just Brazil. They're all part of one asset class now, and investors aren't distinguishing between any of them." And the dramatic drop in the U.S. markets--after months of talk about a "Goldilocks economy"--demonstrated once again that markets hate nothing so much as uncertainty. Russia's pain evidently would also be the world...