Word: mutualization
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...stock market may be down 40% this year, but your portfolio has other assets too - or at least it should. Balanced funds that hold bonds and cash along with stocks are down just 29%, according to mutual-fund tracker Morningstar. And many retirees looking to minimize risk wisely hold a smaller percentage of stocks than the average balanced fund (and also may own insured bank CDs). Which means a more typical experience for them is a 20% loss, says Gregg Fisher, president of Gerstein Fisher, a financial adviser in New York City. That's not fun, but it's nowhere...
...game resulted in a few alcohol-related health and disciplinary incidents amongst student-fans, according to Harvard University Police Department officials. This year’s game resulted in nine alcohol-related medical transports, according to HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano. As of yesterday, those statistics also included one mutual assault-and-battery between a Harvard student and a non-affiliated spectator, as well as one arrest by the Boston Police Department of a minor in possession of alcohol. In addition, Catalano said that one Yale student was stopped for public urination. College administrators said it is still too early...
...proud, aristocratic and essentially clueless woman (Nicole Kidman) inherits a failing cattle ranch in Australia's outback. She meets a roughneck drover (Hugh Jackman) with whom she falls into that mutual dislike which, in movies like Australia, is always True Love's necessary precursor. They begin sparking on the adventurous cattle drive that is required to save the old homestead from their rich and avaricious neighbors. She also inherits Nullah (Brandon Walters), an adorable child of mixed white and aboriginal blood, who needs her love but also needs the mystical wisdom of his grandfather (David Gulpilil), a sort of shaman...
...tendrils in every corner of finance, both domestically and abroad, is the poster child for an institution that is allegedly "too big to fail." A much smaller financial institution, Lehman Brothers, was allowed to go down - and shock waves hit corners of the financial world, like money-market mutual funds, that no one had anticipated. The fear is not only of pain inflicted but also of unpredictability...
Citi is not the first bank to hit the wall. When Washington Mutual, which had a balance sheet less than a third the size of Citi's, went down, the FDIC immediately flipped the company to JPMorgan Chase. But marrying off Citi was not a viable option. "There isn't anyone to hand Citi to," says Roy Smith, a professor of finance at New York University's Stern School. "This is the King Kong of banks." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...