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...above the 10-year Treasury. It says stocks are attractive. That said, we are very cautious about what to own in this market. Bottom line: If you can find high-quality companies - meaning they have a good balance sheet and provide yield - we think for the long-term investor this is now an attractive way to invest. The consumer-staples sector (i.e., food, beverage, tobacco, etc.) is a good sector for finding these types of stocks...
Robert Chew is a former investor with Madoff via a feeder fund. He lives in Colorado...
...scheme: the feeders and Madoff conspiring together to keep basic due-diligence issues from clients, even as Madoff lied to his own feeder-fund generals, even as he lied to government regulators. Everyone turned a blind eye, everyone was in bed on this, including down the line the hapless investor who trusted all those years. See the top 10 scandals...
...About 15 people gathered on the fourth floor of Harvard Student Agencies yesterday in an event sponsored by the Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum to listen to Waldorf talk about his experience with the match-making start-up. Waldorf joined the company in August 2000 as a founding investor. The main question Waldorf addressed was a central problem facing Internet entrepreneurs. How can online businesses devise a model that could turn a profit when people are accustomed to free services and online advertising has failed generate substantial revenue? Currently, eHarmony charges $59.95 for a one-month subscription. “It?...
...loss could potentially be much bigger. Current rules require banks to hold assets that trade on their books at the value they would fetch if a bank had to sell them to another investor. Loans typically don't trade, so the rule typically only applies to stocks or bonds a bank might happen...