Word: investors
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...past half-century? The statistics certainly bear this out: by some measures, half of America's households now invest, compared with only 16% in 1945, and mutual funds alone hold more of America's financial assets than banks do. Indeed, a strong argument can be made that the small investor, far more than the professional trader, is the true foundation upon which the modern bull market has been built...
...stock market can make anyone look bad--even a billionaire investor like Laurence Tisch, who will step down as CEO of Loews Corp. by year's end. Shareholders may wish he had stepped down sooner, given his errant attempts to time the market over the past two years. Tisch, a contrarian, is smarter than most. After oil prices receded in the early '80s, his company bought oil tankers and drilling rigs at scrap-metal prices and later sold them for a tenfold gain. But he's lost big betting the company's cash against the Standard & Poor...
...appreciation that has become increasingly vital for kids, says David Brady, manager of the Stein Roe Young Investor Fund, a mutual fund geared toward children and young adults. "With the future of the social security system in doubt and with pension plans dying out as a concept, these young people will have much more responsibility for their financial future than prior generations," Brady says. "They need to have good fiscal sense...
Educational programs sponsored by community leaders like Hughes can go a long way toward teaching kids the basics of money management. And other experts like Junior Achievement, the Stein Roe Young Investor Fund and Merrill Lynch offer parents plenty of help (see accompanying box). But sometimes a kid just has to learn the hard...
...biggest winners in all this could be the U.S. investor who bets on the euro's boost to European growth. "For the American investor," says J. Paul Horne, equity-market economist with Salomon Smith Barney in London, "the euro zone will be one of the few places in the world with risk comparable to that in the U.S. and with the kinds of structural changes that we saw in the U.S. over the past five years: balanced budgets, increased competitiveness, productivity gains...