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...flip side of high risk--assuming too little of it--is equally dangerous. That's been clear enough over the past few years to anyone who is mainly in bonds or old-economy value stocks like Philip Morris and Good-year Tire. Quite simply, they were left in the tech dust. Ask Julian Robertson, the famed Tiger Management boss who held fast to his value style until time ran out. Last week Robertson, whose assets had dwindled, to about $6 billion from $21 billion in 1998, gave up and quit. The question is, Is it too late to jump...
...late for Robertson but not for you. Tech stocks are roughly 30% of the total market, and that's a good ration for your portfolio. The critical consideration, though, is that by beefing up now you are layering on risk just when safer value stocks may be coming back into favor. But don't let that stop you, at least not if your goal is long-term savings with an all-weather portfolio that you need to check and rebalance only once a year...
...game. First, McNamara tested his risk tolerance with a series of questions. Mr. Value's answers revealed him to be, no shock, intimidated by the market and concerned most about not losing money. Yet Mr. Value was insisting on an all-stock portfolio with broad exposure to tech--a challenging contradiction that every investor should explore within. Do your stocks suit your risk tolerance...
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...definitive equation for calculating the possible number of technologically advanced civilizations in our Milky Way galaxy, remains convinced that he will be around when one of them calls. "We're just at the beginning of our search," says Drake, who reckons that there are some 10,000 high-tech worlds scattered among the Milky Way's 100 billion or more stars. That's a much more modest figure than the late Carl Sagan's estimate of 1 million intelligent civilizations in just our galaxy--one of perhaps 100 billion galaxies scattered through the universe...