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...would produce the highest returns without the risk of the nest egg running out. To do this, the analysts ran something called a Monte Carlo simulation, which mimics the real-life ups and downs of the market. Most of the time, the market goes up slightly. But some years - ka-pow! - stocks and bonds do spectacularly poorly. What T. Rowe Price found should frustrate anyone who has spent time wondering if 25% of a portfolio should be in international bonds or small-cap stocks. No portfolio is 100% safe from disaster. (See pictures of the stock market crash...
Megabank HSBC has been as much a part of Hong Kong history as Victoria Harbor, high tea at the Peninsula Hotel and martial-arts movies. Founded in 1865 as the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, HSBC backed some of city's most important businessmen, including tycoon Li Ka-shing, and remains Hong Kong's No. 1 bank. But for much of the past 20 years, HSBC has expended a lot of its energy striving to be more than an Asian institution. With major acquisitions in the U.K., the U.S. and elsewhere, HSBC grew into one of the world's largest...
...more attention-grabbing (if not bestselling) items designed to appeal to health-conscious fair-goers. Other newer - or newly-rediscovered-and-marketed - "healthy food choices" highlighted on the Fair's website include mixed fruit cups, baked potatoes, corn-on-the-cob, pork chops on-a-stick, turkey tenderloins, shish-ka-bobs, sandwich wraps and veggie corndogs...
...Written By (Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong...
...family along, up to five people can book a suite starting at $1,500 per night, and, with stays of four nights or more, you'll get complimentary breakfast every day, three family dinners and a date night for Mom and Dad, complete with free babysitting service. 72-100 Ka'upulehu Drive, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii...