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...Terror Portfolio It's wise to keep a finger in stocks that will benefit if the worst happens
...EAST OR WILD WEST? "When you're in China," says Hhu Ng, a portfolio manager at the Cundill Group in Vancouver, "you fear for your life sitting in a cab because there's no regard for traffic laws. How much confidence should you have then in China's business laws?" Not much. Corruption is rampant, copyright and patent piracy is a way of life, regulation of the financial markets is murky, and Chinese accounting standards could turn the con men of Enron and WorldCom green with envy. What's more, the Chinese banking system is dominated by the government, with...
Director Jonathan Demme has a vast portfolio (The Silence of the Lambs, Beloved and a forthcoming Gulf War-based remake of The Manchurian Candidate) behind him and, it would seem from just glancing that immense composite list, little time to dwell on the historical particulars and hardships of tracking down footage for a documentary. Yet, in his portrait of Jean Dominique, a Haitian activist unknown to most American ears, Demme takes aim at a slightly obscure topic and turns up a final product that not only serves as a fascinating narrative biography but an excellent debriefing of Haiti?...
Stock pickers should consider steel (Nucor, International Steel Group), fertilizer (Agrium), farm equipment (Deere), coal (Peabody), precious metals (Newmont Mining), paper goods (International Paper, MeadWestvaco) and energy (ExxonMobil). Then, when the prices you pay at the counter go up, so should your portfolio...
...market. Factor in the transaction and management fees imposed by traditional mutual funds, and investors fall even further behind the market. Bogle's simple idea was to create a fund that would track the market. There was no longer any need for high-priced stock pickers or heavy portfolio turnover...