Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact is that so-called Afro-pessimism isn't grounded in solid research," Appiah said...
Jain herself played solid tennis at the start of the tournament, but her success was limited by a tough draw; Jain was matched up with the tournament's top seed--Martina Nedelkova from Virginia Commonwealth University--in the first round...
They probably won't pay off immediately, but small stocks will reward the patient, as they always have before when they were this much cheaper than the large caps. If you don't have time to research individual companies, consider a solid small-cap fund like Babson Enterprise II or Berger Small Cap Value, or a Russell 2000 index fund, which gathers the small-cap castoffs in a neat bundle. Or buy a fund based on the Wilshire 5000 index, which includes both large- and small-cap stocks. Both types are sold by fund companies like Vanguard and Fidelity...
...attention now. A choppy market like the one we've had this summer is where savvy stock pickers are supposed to excel. There are about 150 big-bet funds, reports fund-research firm Morningstar Inc. That's up from about 100 six years ago. The theory is solid. In any large portfolio, the manager is sure to have favorite stocks--often those on which he has done the best research. Why not double up on those and ditch the rest...
...hitting stock picker--and that creature is as rare as the Mark McGwires of the world. The Sequoia Fund, for example, has beaten both the average stock fund and the S&P 500 for the past one, three and five years. But it does not accept new investors. Some solid big-bet funds that do welcome new money include Davis Growth, Clipper, Janus Twenty, Lexington Corporate Leaders, Yacktman and Enterprise Growth...