Word: outperform
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very conservative indicator and a management firm which takes risks, as HMC does, should outperform it, critics have charged...
Which wouldn't much matter if the newcomers would sit patiently for 10 or 20 years. Over long periods, stocks will almost surely outperform safer investments. But I know these people. Some will rush for the door the minute they see the value of their portfolio fall. They sold last week. The rest will hang on, knowing a dip is just a dip, a sigh is just a sigh -- but they will grow increasingly uncomfortable as the dip begins to look like a trough. At that point, they will become a little angry with themselves for ever having got into...
...Investors, advocates keeping up to a third of a portfolio in foreign assets. Spread risk among regions; don't bet the ranch all at once, he counsels, and keep an investment horizon of at least five years. Some emerging markets -- particularly in Asia and South America -- are likely to outperform the U.S. and Europe. But creating the wealth of nations takes time. After all, as they say, Rome wasn't built...
With rates on certificates of deposit dropping to their lowest levels ever and stocks at near record highs, IPOs look irresistible. They tend to outperform the market, at least in the beginning. The payback on this year's IPOs has hovered around 30%, compared with 5.3% for the Standard & Poor's index of 500 stocks. IPOs also give investors an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of what might be the next Apple Computer or Microsoft. But for every Microsoft, there are five flops, like MathSoft. And that's what makes market watchers nervous...
...rose for a third of the firms, they fell for a quarter of them. About 42% of the concerns failed or merged by the end of the decade. In a four-year study of about 900 initial public offerings, Cornell University finance professor Roni Michaely discovered that IPOs generally outperform the rest of the market for only the first six to nine months but then start lagging behind. After two years, IPOs were typically underperforming the S&P by 20%. Michaely explains that IPO prices are usually propped up by their lead underwriters in the early stages with positive reports...