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...lower-risk alternative is investing in real estate through publicly traded companies known as Real Estate Investment Trusts, or REITs. These stocks earned a nasty reputation in the '70s and '80s, when REITs loaded up with debt and used the proceeds to invest largely in the higher-yielding debt--junk--of developers. REITs collapsed when the developers went bust after building too many skyscrapers...
Today's REITs are altogether different. They carry half the debt, are far better managed and invest mainly in actual property--not developers' mortgages. The stocks, while no longer cheap, have a lot going for them, including secure dividend yields of more than 6%. The security lies in the federal requirement that REITs pay out 95% of their income. The hefty dividends provide a cushion when the market falls. From March 11 through last week, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 9.8% while REITs fell just 5.4%.. During the four years through 1996, negative average returns were reported...
...money would be set aside by the city and would be used to support a bond...to invest in affordable housing," Triantafillou said...
...biggest potential problem for digital TV lies with cable systems. Only one cable system in the country can currently handle digital signals; all the rest will have to invest in billions of dollars of new equipment first...
...LeBow feel about being the maverick who broke ranks with his peers? "I just feel like we've done the right thing," he says. "I'm not a maverick." He can deny that all he wants. But LeBow is more maverick than James Garner. He shuns glamour, preferring to invest in down-and-out companies. He has teamed up with the likes of Carl Icahn, a consummate outsider. And he doesn't mind an ugly fight...