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...It’s about a mutual beneficial interest. It’s about our future and it’s about the University’s future,” he said. “I want to thank Harvard for stepping to the plate, not just with a cash piece...
...with a burning cigarette stub. Over the course of four decades they would become, apart from their father Saddam, the most feared men in Iraq--responsible for untold numbers of maimings, jailings and murders and, in the case of Uday, rapes as well. The brothers never outgrew their mutual contempt. Qusay loathed Uday's drunken rampages and reprobate lifestyle; Uday railed to friends that Qusay, Saddam's chosen heir, conspired to marginalize him after a 1996 assassination attempt left him crippled...
Picking up on the meteorological theme, at left: mutual-fund investors can be a fair-weather bunch too, withdrawing and reinvesting money along with the market's ups and downs. Problem is, they often act at the wrong time and make less than they would have if they had done nothing at all. While the S&P 500 returned an annualized 12.2% from 1984 through 2002, the average stock-fund investor saw a meager 2.6% yearly gain--which didn't even outpace inflation (ringing in at 3.1%), according to a recent study by Boston research firm Dalbar Inc. The reason...
Alan Greenspan may yet save the world economy with his barrage of interest-rate cuts. But the Federal Reserve's war on hard times is claiming heavy casualties among conservative investors who have seen their fixed income wither away. With money-market mutual funds now yielding close to 0% after fees and taxes, these investors face some tough choices. But one they might not have considered before--stocks that pay dividends--is looking better every...
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...