Word: portfolio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same time we cannot forget that, despite widespread student protests and organized alumni activity, Harvard for decades resisted African National Congress calls for divestment of its endowed portfolio from the apartheid regime...
...Market timing doesn't work. Selective plumping and pruning is one thing. I heartily advocate yearly or quarterly rebalancing of your portfolio: selling some of the asset class that has done best and buying more of the one that has lagged to maintain your desired mix of stocks, bonds and cash. I even endorse shifting among assets with part of your portfolio--no more than 20%--to try to take advantage of specific conditions every so often. Early this year I suggested tilting toward bonds because stocks were overvalued and lower interest rates seemed likely. Some wags would call that...
...those of American firms with comparable earnings growth. But the European market is likely to boom as new money flows in. And the probability of a weakening dollar means Americans who move money into Euroland now might lock in exchange-rate profits. "There is a case for diversifying your portfolio into a currency area that provides an alternative to the U.S.," says Merrill Lynch's Bowers. "But there's no shortcut: you still have to find good companies." In the current European climate, the most promising sectors include consumer products, distribution, high tech, health care, insurance and telecommunications...
Wall Street swings to extremes in a flash. For years portfolio managers have worried about the spectre of runaway inflation, as employment and incomes threatened to power into sixth gear. Now, after a summer of turbulence, they have become convinced that the economy won't weather the quick downshift. They are jettisoning the stocks and bonds of any companies that could stumble if the decade-old expansion turns to recession. But what happens if that severe slowdown doesn't hit? What if the Fed won't let it happen and moves aggressively to cut rates? Then Wall Street will have...
...junk market's current illiquidity (expressed as the large gap between the price at which you can buy and sell the same bond). But you can buy shares in a diversified junk-bond mutual fund with a good record, such as Fidelity High Income or Vanguard High-Yield Corporate Portfolio. You'll get a high yield and the potential for capital gains when the market steadies...