Word: portfolios
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...This is part of a major process to renew and rationalize France's real estate holdings," says an adviser to Reform and Budget Minister Jean-François Copé. Since June 2005, France has been off-loading odd or uneconomic offices from its €15 billion portfolio - like the 1770-built Hôtel Kinsky, advertised in Le Monde, that houses 138 Culture Ministry employees who are off to new premises. The plan has boosted France's annual sales of state properties from €160 million to €635 million last year, a pace expected to settle down...
...jabbering about a weakening housing market has made you glum at the prospect of your own home's losing value, then has the Chicago Mercantile Exchange got a portfolio addition for you. Since May, investors have been able to buy and trade options and futures contracts pegged to home prices in 10 U.S. cities, giving property owners a way to hedge against a bear market--and letting speculators place bets on the direction of house prices in San Francisco, New York City, Chicago, Las Vegas and elsewhere...
...value," says Mafatlal, who adds that fine jewelry will always remain important in India. Today's younger women want accessories that can live up to their jewels, hence Mafatlal's insistence that Valentino, given the designer's taste for decorative accessories, be the first brand in MLP's portfolio...
...someone is deciding to take a little time off, scale back, have children, it can fit very well into their 'portfolio of me,'" says Martha Nelson, managing editor of the People Group at Time Inc., publishers of PEOPLE magazine (a sister publication of TIME STYLE & DESIGN). "Uma Thurman took time out for a while when she had a few contracts [including one with Lancīme]. It was when she had very young children. It's a nice little income stream. And if it works out perfectly, it's also an enhancement. The level of photography for some of the campaigns...
That Bush would have an adviser as bare-knuckled as Frances Fragos Townsend, 44, isn't unusual, particularly for a portfolio as vital as counterterrorism. He detests it when aides waste his time clearing their throat before getting to the point, and he has always had an affinity for forceful women like Rice and communications guru Karen Hughes. Still, Townsend's rise to the President's inner circle is remarkable when you consider that she was a Justice Department confidante of Janet Reno's--which made her suspect among conservatives who still love to hate Bill Clinton's Attorney General...