Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several hours later, a Mass. Ave. resident reported that the hinges on his basement door had been unbolted and that a fax machine, three computers, a printer and $300 in cash had been stolen from his office...
...that you should gradually reduce the percentage of stocks in your portfolio and increase the percentage of bonds. In fact, a common recommendation still used by some planners is to match your percentage of bonds to your age: at your 65th birthday hold 65% bonds (or bonds and cash) and 35% stocks. But a typical bond, the five-year Treasury, historically yields only about 5.3% and yields even less today--about 4.5%. The broad stock market, in contrast, has returned an annual average of about 11% a year since 1926, 18% a year since 1980. Clearly, if you want your...
...trick, then, is to keep enough money in the safest high-grade bonds (and in cash) so that you can live off that money--along with your Social Security and pension--during any five-year downdraft in the stock market. That way you're unlikely to be forced to sell your stocks when their price is down. Any money you won't need for at least five years should be invested in a diversified portfolio of stocks or actively managed stock mutual funds...
There are, of course, risks to putting the bulk of your retirement money in the market, such as the chance that stocks will stay down for five years. But there are also risks in holding low-yielding bonds and cash--chiefly the risk that you'll outlive your money. Also, most bond prices would be hit by any revival of inflation. Sticking with stocks is a gamble that financial planner Satovsky says is worth it "if you want to live to 100 and not go broke...
...lethal. Ask Latin American countries, whose economies were concussed by the Russian shock waves even though the two regions have few direct economic links. Or ask the thousands of ethnic Chinese who fled Indonesia last summer after impoverished locals concluded that Chinese businessmen had magnified their misery by shipping cash out of the country in search of stability...