Word: bernstein
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Even a disciplined approach, though, allows wiggle room to get more or less aggressive. Right now it pays to play things safe, says Richard Bernstein, chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch: "There is nothing wrong with cash." Yet be warned: yields on money-market funds and bank CDs are low and going lower. Don't plan on holding lots of cash for more than six months. One good option, says Bernstein, is Treasury bonds, which on a total-return basis have outperformed stocks in five of the past eight years--a first since the Depression. He believes that trend will...
...moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.” After all, however good Gessen’s ideas may be, they need to reach not just the minds, but the hearts of their audience to really make a difference.—Staff writer Sanders I. Bernstein can be reached at sbernst@fas.harvard.edu...
...better off than couch potatoes who drink moderately. This does not pass the smell test. I'm 61 years old, have exercised since high school and just don't like the taste of alcohol. I can probably outwalk drinking nonexercisers half my age, including those researchers. Danny Bernstein, ASHEVILLE...
Agile was not an adjective normally associated with Philips. Sprawling, complex or plodding seemed an apt description. "They'd sell something I didn't even know they had," says Scott Geels, analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein in London. "And I wasn't the only one." Kleisterlee took a carving knife to Philips' abstruse portfolio. The semiconductor business--where even his own father labored--as well as other component businesses got the chop. "In the economic reality of today, you have to make a choice," Kleisterlee says. "We focus on the brand; we focus on marketing; we focus on downstream...
...forgotten the eight years of economic prosperity and relative peace in the world the Clintons gave us. How insulting to Senator Clinton to argue that she shows weakness in having Bill fight for her. The press has bigger issues than to demean these real contributors to our country. Kenneth Bernstein, CENTEREACH...