Word: risklessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cabot said the University held down its losses by cutting down its stock holdings and keeping more money in riskless cash holdings...
Real estate is no longer a nearly riskless investment. Instead of rising 10% to 15% a year, the median sales price of an existing home has fallen 1.3% from its high last year, to $67,200. Moreover, those statistics understate the amount of decline because they do not include attractive financing concessions that many sellers are now making. In California buyers with cash can sometimes get a 10% discount. A few New York City developers are offering special mortgages on cooperative apartments, like 12.5%, compared with a bank rate of 17% or more. For someone who borrows $100,000, that...
...made his sons unfit to lead by spoiling them, pulling them out of college, putting them in jobs over their heads, dashing their confidence, and sealing the insult in his will by contriving to strip them of command and money. So the company fell into the hands of a riskless, unimaginative class of managers who kept the family at bay, sold off half the papers from 1956-67, and turned a turbulent enterprise into a bottom-line operation...