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...herd instinct is at work here, and eventually the herd goes wrong. When you invest this way, the bet you make is that you can run fastest when the jig is up. That's a tall order. Typically, the end of any trend is clear only in hindsight. Until then, every dip looks like a buying opportunity...
...stay diversified. If you invest in mutual funds, keep something in overseas funds and small-cap and large-cap value funds along with your aggressive-growth holdings. If individual stocks are your thing, five is a minimum, and be certain they are in different industries. Look for value. Depressed bank stocks are bound to rally after the Fed signals that rates have risen enough. When will that be? Probably when the NASDAQ finally cools...
Then things got stormy. In a swift year-end deal, Cheung Kong Holdings, billionaire Li's flagship, paid an estimated $5 million for a 2% stake in Timeless. In turn, Timeless agreed to invest $23 million in new offices in the Center, a top-drawer Cheung Kong development. In the old economy, a deal with one of Asia's richest men would have marked one's arrival among the local business elite. But to many investors, Timeless suddenly looked less like a go-go technology firm than an old-fashioned real estate play...
With FAS unwilling to invest in a facility that its students don't use, some Law School students say Hemenway users are given short shrift...
...pressing academic priority arose, we might consider converting Hemenway into something different," Zewinski says. "There wasn't any high priority need to invest in Hemenway...