Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mike felt emancipated. The next morning he phoned the 800 number of the pension plan. A voice asked him if he wanted to shift some of his holdings from a retirement money-market portfolio to an OTC portfolio. The more buttons he pushed, the more such talk continued. Nobody said anything about Archer Daniels Midland...
...Which, for like-minded Americans currently walking tall on Wall Street, is a sobering thought. Still, hard times in Tokyo can be good news for U.S. investors. "The time is coming when you should be buying Asian stocks," says Kadlec, who recommends placing around 5 percent of your portfolio in the troubled region. A tumbling yen also helps keep inflation down stateside, not to mention making it a little cheaper to vacation in the land of cherry blossoms...
...safest approach to biotech is via mutual funds. Vanguard Health, Fidelity Select Health and Putnam Health Sciences have the best three-year returns, according to Lipper Analytical Services. But if you're playing with the speculative part of your portfolio, which is appropriate here, individual stocks pack the big thrill. Naturally, there's no telling if biotech stocks will break out of their slump anytime soon. But if you want to be there when they do, start nibbling...
...June 1994, Hubbell's portfolio swelled with $100,000 more after a series of fortuitously timed meetings. On June 14, Arnold gathered presidential confidants, including Jordan, McLarty and McLarty's senior aide Mark Middleton, for dinner. A week later, Middleton began a flurry of White House sessions with James Riady, head of Indonesia's Lippo conglomerate, and his lieutenant John Huang. Middleton's lawyer Robert Luskin said his client played no role in lining up a Riady payment. On June 23, Riady, who had befriended Clinton years earlier in Arkansas, met Hubbell for breakfast, had a presidential audience...
...several quarters," Gabele says. "It really does look like a trend." Even at such blue-chip companies as GE and Procter & Gamble, where insiders rarely sell, they've been dumping stock. There are many reasons for an executive to sell: new house, college tuition, balancing his or her portfolio. Still, most have some flexibility, and hard-core selling is never a good sign...