Word: mutually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years before we have another bear market, or one may have already started. If you've been investing $200 a month in no-load mutual funds for years, through thick and thin, don't ever change. In the long run, you'll do great. But if you've never lived through a bear market and have got into stocks because 3% from a bank is a joke, and you've got this young broker (who has also never lived through a bear market) advising you -- beware. Get at least some of your money out onto the sidelines, and for heaven...
When taken as naive and youthful stupidity, Laura's actions seems forgivable. But the script does not allow this attitude to endure. Like everything else in the film, Laura's actions are taken to the extreme. When she finds Jean kissing a mutual male friend, Samy (Carlos Lopez), she becomes outraged, screaming at both of them and hitting everything in sight...
Regulators have had two good excuses recently to push their oversight of derivatives. Typically, derivatives contracts make up anywhere from 2% to 10% of the assets of the mutual funds that hold them. But the managers of a $385 million government-bond fund called Hyperion 1999 Term Trust got carried away last fall. The trust put nearly one-third of its money into derivatives contracts that amounted to bets that interest rates would not drop anytime soon. When they did drop, the value of the trust's shares plunged about 25%. Just last week, a group of investment funds...
...these are puzzled, what are new investors to make of the tailspin? That question worries market professionals more than almost anything else. Since the 1987 crash gave way to a new boom, millions of investors have put a few thousand dollars each into the market, mostly by way of mutual funds. The great majority are getting their first bitter taste of a down market. If they panic and sell out, they could turn a downward spiral into a genuine crash...
...After 2 1/2 years in the market, Aimee Swenby, 31, an executive assistant at a financial planning firm, and her husband John, 37, have sold, on the advice of a planner who told them to cash in some of their gains, 25% of the $20,000 worth of mutual-fund shares they had accumulated. They intend to hold the rest. Says Aimee: "I have & confidence the market will come back...