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...This latest go-round featured hedge-fund operators, leveraged-buyout boys (who took to calling themselves "private-equity firms") and whiz-kid quants who devised and plugged in those new financial instruments, creating a financial Frankenstein the likes of which we had never seen. Great new fortunes were made, and with them came great new hubris. The newly minted masters of the universe even had the nerve to defend their ridiculous income tax break - much of the private-equity managers' piece of their investors' profits is taxed at the 15% capital-gains rate rather than at the normal top federal...
...photos of The Global Fund fighting AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria around the world...
...have more than $100,000 in any one bank. The FDIC insures that amount should your bank fail--plus $250,000 for retirement accounts that hold bank products like CDs. On Sept. 16, however, there was an event in the normally unexcitable world of money-market funds. Because of a loss on Lehman debt, a money fund marked its share value below $1--sacrilege for an investment meant to be akin to cash. A mass redemption followed. If more money funds "break the buck," you may be tempted to move to FDIC-insured accounts. Just keep in mind that they...
...volatile days and weeks, and timing the market is a crapshoot, even for the pros. The ability of 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...
Money invested in a variable-rate annuity goes into mutual-fund-like sub-accounts, which are walled off from the general account the insurer uses for its other obligations. It's like having a set of mutual funds at a broker: SEC regulations apply, and AIG's creditors can't tap those assets...