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...tell you, it's hard to keep a stiff upper lip these days. First my high-tech dot-com portfolio plummets. Then it turns out that my beloved cell phone may be zapping my delicate cranium with radioactive waves. And now, to top it all off, the Prozac that keeps me from murdering my coworkers is under attack, this time by recently unemployed talk therapists. It's as if everything that seemed so promising way back in the '90s has suddenly been tainted by doubt...
...have money automatically transferred to a mutual fund from my checking account each month (which sounds easy but is actually the result of a stunningly complicated process) and I have no idea how to stop them from taking the money, it looks like I've got myself a portfolio of sorts. And that means that ever since New Year's I've had to purchase several new bottles of antacid, which I clutch faithfully every morning as the market opens. It all looked so rosy back in '98, and now it's like a terrible and extremely expensive roller coaster...
Business owners can also enhance their financial security by making sure they do not sink all their assets back into the business. "You do want to have a varied financial mixed portfolio that includes items like stocks, IRAs, T-bills and the like," says Tom Zanecchia, president and founder of Wealth Management Consultants, a Denver firm. "If the business should sour with the next generation and you're planning to live off only those proceeds, you may run into some hard times...
...general, use options only in tandem with stocks in your portfolio--to lock in gains and protect against events like an earnings report or a court ruling. There are exceptions, like Grandma's bull-call spread. That's a fairly conservative play in which you buy one long-term call option and sell another at a higher strike price. You lock in most of the difference--though the stock must go up, and if it goes way up, you lose the excess gain. If you've got a big portfolio, odds are there is an options strategy for you. Talk...
...unlikely to pass in the Republican-controlled Congress. But several states are pursuing similar reforms. Ohio legislators introduced a bill this spring calling for a moratorium on the state's testing. After parent protests, Wisconsin shelved its all-or-nothing graduation test; the state now judges students on a portfolio of their work, including test scores, grades and letters of recommendation. Legislators in Massachusetts are considering a similar proposal. Florida has forsaken rote multiple-choice exams in favor of tests with longer essay questions and math problems requiring students to show their work...