Word: bets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stocks remain your best bet for long-term security; that is, for any money you won't need for at least three years. In 50 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...
...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...
...might not be a bad bet. It is boxing, after all, which is nearly as dirty a sport as politics. If Tyson was allowed to fight despite a rape conviction, how long can the commission ban him for mere biting and carrying on? Just put him in the ring and let Marv Albert call the fight...
...funds have paid a price. Weary of laggard returns, investors have been shifting billions of dollars to passive funds like the Vanguard Index 500, where they are assured of getting market-matching results (and lower fees). Now active managers are striking back, brandishing what I'll call the "big-bet" fund. By limiting the number of stocks in tow and generally holding on longer, these funds correct some of the faults that have driven money to the indexers...
...NASA can determine that Senator Glenn is fit for space flight at age 77, why does the Federal Aviation Administration require commercial pilots to stop flying at 60? If NASA thinks a 77-year-old Glenn is good enough for it, you can bet I'd want to have him in the pilot's seat of the airliner I'm riding in. CARL ZIEGLER Hugo, Minn...