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Originally a sociology concentrator, a portfolio of landscape photographs gained Nair entrance into the nascent Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department, capped at ten students per year...
This is no time to duck the stock market; you would miss the inevitable recovery. Rebalance your portfolio to create your desired mix of stocks, bonds and cash (60%-30%-10% is reasonably conservative). Lean more heavily toward stocks if you're under age 55. Don't pile into a traditional IRA, because these accounts require withdrawals starting at age 70 1/2. "That defeats the purpose of working longer to keep your capital invested and could throw you into a higher tax bracket," says Ed Slott, author of The Retirement Savings Timebomb and How to Defuse It. Instead, favor...
...sure that there will be serious upward pressure on oil prices. This is much less an “issue” and more an economic fact. If the U.S. is to ensure its energy supply and make the transition to a more mixed portfolio of energy sources, then it must act now and invest where it can expect a return—in serious, aggressive measures to change the outdated paradigm ruling our energy use—and stop subsidizing Big Oil. America has no time to waste and a lot to lose...
Beware an indexing approach to international bonds. Professionals outside the mutual-fund universe often employ that strategy, which could turn up in a brokerage or money-management firm's separately managed accounts geared to wealthy clients. Indexing now calls for 18% of a global portfolio to be in the debt of Japan, which yields less than 1% and would wipe out any overall yield advantage you would gain by investing abroad. Active managers aren't going anywhere near these bonds...
Around the same time, Edelman also used some of the money from his Bar Mitzvah to start trading stocks, which he soon found he had a knack for. According to the Wall Street Journal, at peak his portfolio was worth $300,000, but he recently sold off his stock to buy a condo near Porter Square...