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...with lazy translations (one read, “Let’s Do The Dancing Team Beach Volleyball”).After the first week, these pseudo-Western products all begin to fade into the rest of the novelty that is Shanghai. I love that I bought the entire James Bond collection compressed onto three DVDs, but I’ve been trying to find something under the pirated, superficial materialism that has saturated far too much of Shanghai.In my search for authenticity, I quickly found a group from whom, collectively, one should never seek advice: expats. These men and women...
...ordinary investors to move in and out of investments at the right moment tends to be pretty bad anyway. A longitudinal study by the research firm Dalbar shows that as mutual-fund investors increase the length of time they hold their funds, they do better relative to stock and bond indexes. "Our emotions are backward-looking, but the market is always about what's going to happen," says David Yeske, a financial planner in San Francisco. So no running for the exits. That said, it may be a good time to see if you're properly diversified--in a blend...
...where to assign blame for the ongoing market turmoil, the economists named the usual suspects: reckless mortgage lenders, government mortgage bond insurers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, bond rating agencies, the investment bankers who bought securitized home loans, and the government for failing to properly regulate investment banks and other less transparent securities markets...
Investing isn't so much buying a stock or a bond or a house, it's about buying into the belief that an asset you purchase for 10 bucks today will be worth more than that sometime in the future. Never mind that the future is generally being promoted by the seller, the way religions pitch their paths to an afterlife. You gotta believe! In investing we fall for it over and over because sometimes it actually works. Stocks do go up. Housing can be an O.K. investment over the long haul...
...Wellesley College’s investments from 2002 to 2008. Before that, it spent much of the past year with interim leadership after its former chief, Mohamed A. El-Erian, announced last September that he would return to a high-ranking executive position at Pacific Investment Management Company, a bond-specialist based in Los Angeles. During his 22-month tenure, El-Erian was tasked with bringing stability to an organization that had been rocked by the 2005 departure of its long-time CEO Jack R. Meyer, who left with a quarter of the management company’s staff amid...