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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...open mind and a scrutinizing eye, preparing us to deal with the challenges ahead. But if you don't stop to appreciate the opportunities here, the time is wasted. Ask any Harvard student and he or she will tell you your time here is full of milestones. Significantly fewer undergraduates, however, realize what a fertile ground Harvard can provide for reflecting on such moments...
...historical average. You can make volatility your friend by sticking to a program of regular investing in stocks or stock funds, preferably through automatic payroll deductions. By investing a set amount each month (known as dollar-cost averaging), you naturally buy more shares when prices are low and fewer when they are high. It's foolproof, so long as your stocks eventually rebound, as they always have in the past...
Like actively managed funds with larger portfolios, however, only a few of the big bets beat the market. At my request, Morningstar screened for stock funds that hold 35 or fewer stocks today and also met that test in 1995 and 1993. That weeds out new funds and those that were concentrated for only a short time. The screen turned up 31 funds. Only four (Sequoia, New England Growth, Enterprise Growth and Clipper) are beating the market this year. On average, the group of 31 has returned just 12% a year for the past five years...
...Many women think they're at high risk when they're not; just because your aunt developed breast cancer doesn't mean you'll get it. Moreover, researchers are starting a new breast-cancer-prevention trial comparing tamoxifen with raloxifene, another anti-estrogen, which in limited testing showed fewer side effects...
...Number of entire teams that have received fewer intentional walks than McGwire...