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However appealing, though, these funds do have their pitfalls. Typically, a life-cycle portfolio invests in a mix of other funds, delivering risk-reducing diversification--but also a chance for an added layer of fees. You will want to stick with funds firms (like T. Rowe Price and Vanguard) that charge only the underlying funds' expense ratios or a modest amount on top. (Fidelity, for example, charges an extra 0.08%.) Some firms charge far more...
Downside Choice can be confusing. After an initial burst of enthusiasm for picking their funds, most Swedes now opt for the default, which has outperformed the average individual portfolio and has lower management fees...
Today such skepticism on the Street, if far from gone, is tempered by pleasant surprise. A year after Carp launched the restructuring, Kodak has lined up a respectable portfolio of increasingly lucrative digital products and services. The company, based in Rochester, N.Y., lost $12 million in the last quarter of 2004, but that was largely because of restructuring costs. Meanwhile, its revenues actually climbed 3%, to $3.8 billion, in that period--the 16% decline in Kodak's traditional film business offset by a 40% surge from its digital sales and services. Yet there remain ample reasons for doubt...
...officer of Kodak's Graphic Communications Group, points out that the customers Kodak will target--like direct marketers who want to customize their flyers or retail chains that need variable posters--represent a $30 billion market that's growing at a 12% clip. Once again, Kodak's recently acquired portfolio of products is arranged to bridge the gulf between traditional and digital printing...
...When nothing looks good, buy everything," says Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at Standard & Poor's, in a pitch for diversification. That's easy to say. But what does it really mean? If you're assessing your portfolio or reallocating a retirement account, you may still be asking yourself, Where do I put money...