Word: finely
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...study in the international journal Pensions, R.A.J. Campbell suggests that pension funds consider adding top instruments to their portfolios to diversify their risk. "Violins are much less volatile than art," says Graddy, who co-authored a paper called "Fiddling with Value: Violins as an Investment?" While the Mei-Moses Fine Art Index was down 35% in the first quarter of 2009, prices for top instruments showed no such tumble. (Read "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning...
...market's high end, new funds have launched to capitalize on the opportunity to diversify into fine instruments. Florian Leonhard, a London-based violin expert and dealer, is gathering more than $50 million for the Fine Violins Fund, aiming to buy as many as 50 old Italian instruments. Leonhard isn't alone in his confidence in the market. Emigrant Bank Fine Art Finance lends large sums of money using violins and cellos as collateral. And former concert violinist Staffan Borseman has established Stradivari Invest to advise big investors on the purchase of top instruments...
...tight confines of my cranium. Light sources started to leave smeary trails across my field of vision. I finished the interview, went back to my hotel, mixed and drank the contents of two bottles randomly chosen from the minibar, and went to bed. The next morning, I was fine...
...immediately had a pretty good idea of what had happened, so after limping out of the gym, he called an old friend who is a retired orthopedist. "He said he was pretty sure it was my Achilles, but I wanted an MRI to be sure. He just said 'fine' and gave me the prescription." I spoke with Frank and showed him the powerlessness of his ankle - the squeeze test. I even had him put his finger into the divot in his tendon. I tried to be gentle about bringing up the s word - surgery - but when I finally broached...