Word: investors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Investing in brand-name consumer products, once the buy-and-hold, sleep-at-night formula for riches, has lost much of its appeal. Just compare the performance of Berkshire Hathaway, the repository of great American brands assembled by legendary investor Warren Buffett, with that of Bill Gates' Microsoft--or Dell or Intel. Is Coke no longer "it"? Have brands like American Express and Disney lost their luster? What has caused Buffett-style consumer brands to lag behind the big tech stocks...
...Will investors be reassured by one of their own? Brazil put a former George Soros aide in charge of its central bank, hoping that Arminio Fraga Neto's track record might restore investor confidence. The real strengthened on the news, but it may take more than appointing a former Soros investment director to turn the country around. "To regain the confidence of foreign investors and the IMF, Fraga will have to convince them that Brazil can close its budget gap and restore its financial health," says TIME senior business reporter Bernard Baumohl. "There may be a momentary rebound...
Peter Lynch became a fabled money manager and best-selling author mainly on the back of a simple investing principle: Buy what you know. But how can the average investor square that strategy with the equally compelling mantra: Diversify for safety? It's one thing for a pro like Lynch to gain enough knowledge about enough stocks to own only those that he understands--and still be diversified. He's got the time and resources. Most individuals, though, are doomed to a far narrower scope. Their best edge may always reside in the company or industry where they work...
...investor, I want a smattering of both old and new U.S. tech stocks, even if the prices of some Net stocks are overinflated to adolescent values. While it may seem counterintuitive to think of Intel as old tech, the market values hardware makers by a much more stringent standard than the newer Net businesses. Even though Intel and Seagate, the largest maker of personal-computer disk drives, signaled that sales are extremely robust, they are still in an industry that will be lucky to grow 20% in 1999. Yahoo, by contrast, is in a business that seems to double every...
...Mastery & Elegance exhibit at the Sackler Museum consists of 115 drawings by 70 different French artists from the collection of private investor Jeffrey E. Horvitz. The "Guide to the Exhibition" booklet tells the story of the 17th and 18th centuries of French drafts-manship. It outlines the development of the techniques, approaches and influences of these French artists in cultured and enlightened words, but it may be inconsequential to anyone who isn't an art history concentrator...