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College: Rumor has it you're casting around for a university, and that you're especially interested in art history courses. Good for you: As I've always said, if you're going to invest four years of your life getting a liberal arts education, you might as well go the distance and choose the absolute least useful course of study. Now, about choosing a college. Apparently you've expressed some interest in a couple of schools in Scotland, the Oxbridge schools and the University of East Anglia. I'm going to urge you to toward East Anglia - not only...
Accordingly, the U.S. right now is the best place in the world to invest. So foreigners are sending back to the U.S., as investments, many of the dollars they accumulate in trade and other business dealings. That trend keeps global demand for dollars high enough to balance--or even outbalance--the increased supply...
Foreign investors, including Canadians, think the U.S. economy "is where the action is," says Michael McCracken, chairman of Informetrica, an economics think tank based in Ottawa. Ed Yardeni, chief economist and global-investment strategist of Deutsche Bank Securities, elaborates: "I go to Europe, Japan, have overseas investors coming to see me in my New York City office, and to a large extent they all want to be invested in technology. And it's very hard to find enough names of high-tech companies to invest in abroad. If you want to invest in technology, you've got to invest...
...defined-benefit plans; they were required to contribute whatever amount would guarantee a specific payout. But corporations like to be able to predict their future liabilities, and the defined-benefit approach has rapidly been replaced by the defined-contribution plan: employer and/or employee contributes X dollars, fund trustees invest it, and investment performance determines the payout. It's great in an up market, but, says Michael F. Carter, a benefits specialist with the Hay Group, a worldwide human-resources consultancy, "we're beginning to enter what I call the worry period." Older boomers, he says, are right to wonder "what...
...also want to hold some ready cash, say, in a money-market fund. Barry Hyman of Ehrenkranz, King & Nussbaum in New York City sees no problem with investors sitting on the sidelines for a while. He says if you prefer to invest in high-growth stocks, waiting for an opportunity when the market dips may be more attractive than reallocating your investments into safer stocks with moderate gains...