Word: investments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Invest in the stock market, if you have money you can afford to put away for the long term, because over the long term, stocks always outperform safer investments. But do your investing indirectly, through no-load mutual funds. Don't try to guess when children will stop murdering their playmates for Nikes or when overcapacity in the used auto-parts market will be sopped up -- let a pro guess for you. Don't try to be nimble or quick; try to be patient...
...million consumers in the heart of Europe. Companies from Turin to Tokyo are setting up joint ventures with local firms, and as eager executives flock to the region, such grand hotels as the Budapest Forum and the new Warsaw Marriott buzz with high-stakes deals. "Learning how to invest profitably in Eastern Europe is the hot new game of the 1990s," says Paul Horne, chief international economist for Smith Barney...
...company's products are household names: Armour packaged meats, Banquet frozen foods and Country Pride chickens. But not many consumers have heard of ConAgra, the Omaha-based company behind those labels. Unlike such food combines as General Mills and Pillsbury, which invest millions to promote their identity, ConAgra has preferred to remain the quiet, self-effacing giant of the industry...
...indictment describes him, Dixon embodied the high-rolling style of oil-patch opportunists. In the early 1980s Congress wrongheadedly tried to help struggling thrifts earn higher returns by liberating them to invest in virtually anything they wanted. Crafty entrepreneurs began building the S&Ls into fast-buck enterprises by sinking money into marinas, golf courses and even uranium mines...
...international takeover artists, the British leave everybody in the dust. Sizing up overseas opportunities is a talent that seems to come naturally to British businessmen, for whom Canada is often closer than Calais. British companies typically invest $1 on acquisitions abroad for every $3 they spend at home, an astonishing ratio considering that the equivalents for France and Japan, runners-up in the takeover league, are 1 to 16 and 1 to 79 respectively. A survey of cross-border takeovers by KPMG Peat Marwick accountants last year showed that British companies spent four times as much on foreign takeovers...