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...been known to hold large cash positions when there's nothing you want to buy. How much did that help? Throughout the year, cash varied from maybe 5% to almost 30%. It was a way of trying to protect the portfolio on the downside. We were fortunate to get a lot of the moves right. We were in cash at the top. When the market went down, we lost a lot less [the S&P 500 lost 37% in 2008]. I hate times like this, quite frankly. I hate losing money, so I really look at downside risk...
...foreign central banks - including China's - are doing the same thing private investors have been doing: pouring funds into short-term, highly liquid, dollar-based assets. If China reversed course and pulled money out of the U.S. in a big way, it would ravage the value of its own portfolio, which is still largely invested in long-term bonds and notes. This is the essence of mutually assured economic destruction, and the Chinese understand that as well as anyone...
What that means to you: "If you're looking for an apartment or want to renegotiate your lease, you should keep in mind that you have bargaining power," says Hans Nordby, U.S. strategist at Property & Portfolio Research (PPR), a real estate intelligence outfit...
...bank loans and other troubled debts, up from about $300 million at the end of 2006. In its most recent deal to sell California-based IndyMac to a group of private-equity investors, the FDIC agreed to shoulder as much as 75% of the bank's $16 billion lending portfolio in order to close the deal...
...bottom fishers, the message is clear: This is no time for casual market-dabbling with your portfolio. Be either a lightning-fast stock trader or a very-long-term investor...