Word: portfolios
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...values - and maintain a commitment to openness and market-friendly policies. To shore up a plunging stock market, Hong Kong's government intervened by buying up blue-chip stocks. A decade later, a government that once prided itself as a bastion of the free market still runs a big portfolio of leftover shares and has occasionally meddled in the economy in ways that have confused businesses and the community at large. And while Malaysia's market interventions helped the country through the crisis, the country never recovered the openness and tolerance it had enjoyed during the boom years. Foreign investors...
...What's more, niche hedge funds set up to wager on rising volatility - New York-based AM Investment Partners, for one - have outperformed the markets as well as conventional funds in recent weeks. If that seems a bit rich, it might be time to add some volatility to your portfolio...
...seemingly sure profits would pad a comfortable lifestyle. The crash in global markets has been hard for him to accept. India's Sensex has fallen 45% from its peak in January; the Goyal family's net worth, built over years, has been decimated in weeks. From $12,000, their portfolio is down to $4,000 - a loss that totals more than half of Sandeep's annual paycheck from his job with a U.S.-based company. Leaving the room, the father fires a Parthian shot: "It's not good to be greedy," he says...
Bair, a former aide to Bob Dole, had little idea what was in store when she took over the FDIC back in sleepy 2006. "They said this was going to be 9 to 5 and just an easy portfolio of issues," she said. But she quickly learned how far underwriting standards had fallen. A year ago, she rang the alarm with mortgage lenders and said they were not doing enough to help borrowers meet their house payments. "I thought," she recalled, "they were going to throw tomatoes...
...done in the world and how you can be part of the stream of what he wants to happen." Within prayer, he suggests, one can also become aware of "people who are worse off," whom Jesus called "the least of these." Someone who starts out praying for his own portfolio, he says, could end up building houses for or helping feed those even harder...