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...bonds (and highly rated corporate bonds too) will rise, driving down the value of existing bonds. "Over the next few years, this is where people will lose the most money in the market," warns Steve Mintz, a fee-only investment manager in Monroe, La. High-yield corporate junk bonds, though, are somewhat insulated because a stronger economy removes much of their risk. So investors do not demand significantly higher yields...
Kahan recommends preferred shares (yielding 6% to 8%) of bank companies, including Fleet Financial and HSBC, and of real estate investment trusts, including Vornado Realty and Health Care Properties. He likes junk-bond mutual funds, including Columbia High Yield and Northeast Investors. He also favors short-maturity bond funds (which yield just north of 1%) like Vanguard Short-Term Bond. Bank CDs are another alternative to money-market funds. Keep a mix of CDs that come due in three, six, 12 and 18 months. You can get 2% on a three-year CD, but you'll run the risk...
...creators and fans. While it sounds like a comix Brigadoon, a magical island that appears just once a year, many in the comixcenti scowl at its mention, fuming at the mix of toys, models, movies, videogames, animation, trading cards, t-shirts and ancillary merchandise that they see as irrelevant junk. On assignment, your TIME.comix reporter was there for the first time, and has returned somewhat dazed but with a complex and not unpleasant experience...
...Angelina Jolie present scenes from the up-coming "Tomb Raider" sequel. Frankly, I didn't mind the non-comics aspect of the show. Anyone with an interest in pop-culture sub-genres, like myself, will find a blissful smile uplift their face in the presence of so much "junk." G.I. Joe dolls in action poses, Simpsons dioramas and full-scale sculptures of creatures from the Lord of Rings movies get museum-like attention. And why shouldn't they? Andy Warhol, who you can easily imagine walking around the Con, redefined the meaning of this material over fifty years...
...want to invest in the distressed, doing it through mutual funds will limit your risk. Among those seeking profit in turnarounds are junk-bond funds and such value funds as Longleaf Partners, Third Avenue Value Fund and Excelsior Value and Restructuring Fund. Or you can wait for the reorganized company to issue new common shares. Because by then the old ones will be dead fish...