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...decide on your asset allocation--how much you want to keep in stocks, in bonds and in cash. Evensky takes his clients' cash needs for the next two years off the top and puts them aside. Then, for the vast majority of his clients, he returns to a mix of 40% bonds and 60% stocks, the default position for most professional pension managers...
Bremer's biggest asset is his direct line to the people who matter in Washington. He says he speaks to Bush every 10 days and to Rumsfeld several times a week. He phones in to the White House's weekly national security meeting. Unlike Garner, whom some U.S. officials criticize for failing to engage the Army commanders, Bremer works closely with Lieut. General Sanchez to determine how the military deploys its resources. Since Bremer's arrival, U.S. troops have become more visible peacekeepers: conducting foot patrols, guarding schools, building soccer fields, cleaning streets. "What is unusual is that Lieut. General...
...Fred’s a very valuable asset, and extremely knowledgeable in transportation issues,” Alan Stone said. “So far he’s been very helpful...
...useful to the U.S. in other ways. "He holds the key to all the locked doors," including details of Iraq's weapons-of-massdestruction program, says a businessman who has met repeatedly with Mahmud in recent years. This source believes Mahmud represents a real danger to Saddam--and an asset to the Americans--because he "likes to talk too much...
Ellison may have some of the deepest pockets in his industry. Oracle boasts $5 billion cash on hand and $9 billion in annual revenues, and its net income increased 31% in the most recent quarter. But Ellison also faces a whole range of challenges. His biggest asset is Oracle's Database software: 70% of all packaged business applications worldwide run on it, making it as hard to ignore as Microsoft Windows. Even Oracle's biggest rival, German giant SAP, chooses to use Oracle Database over its IBM and Microsoft-made counterparts. Oracle Database is a huge part of that virtual...