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...York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani rejected Alwaleed's $10 million donation to the families of 9/11 victims.) But Alwaleed told TIME the campaign is simply part of a strategy to further institutionalize a 25-year-old company that, although it employs just 32 people, is one of the biggest asset holders in the Middle East. "Everybody knows Prince Alwaleed, but no one knows Kingdom Holdings," he says. "Tomorrow, if I die, it will still be operating. It is not a one-man show." He denies rumors that he is planning to take the firm public...
That said, there is a scenario in which you might want to sell. Because the run-up in real estate has been so brisk, this asset class may now occupy too much of your overall investment mix. Excluding the roof over your head, a reasonable allocation to real estate is 5% to 10%. In the past 10 years, a portfolio of half bonds and half stocks would have turned $10,000 into $30,056. But a portfolio of 10% REITs, 49% stocks and 41% bonds would have risen...
...being from Harvard a liability or an asset when you joined the force...
After the death of wife Gertrude (Jennifer Lopez), Ollie Trinke (Ben Affleck), a workaholic music publicist whose pathological impatience is both his greatest asset and worst liability, is left to take care of their baby, a daughter he names Gertie. Unable to cope with his wife’s death or his new role as parent, Trinke immerses himself in work until his father, Bart (George Carlin), refuses to take care of Gertie any longer. Flustered, abandoned, and completely covered in baby powder, Trinke has a very public nervous breakdown at a news conference. Though Affleck should never attempt...
...market for raw materials in a quarter century. How do you do that? Leave actual pork-belly trading to the pros. You can brace for inflation with mutual funds that invest directly in commodities, like Pimco Commodity RealReturn Strategy (up 43% in the past 12 months) and Oppenheimer Real Asset (up 35%). Funds that invest in stocks of companies in the raw-materials business include T. Rowe Price New Era (up 41%), Vanguard Energy (up 43%) and State Street Global Resources (up 77%). Careful. Commodities-fund prices are volatile...