Horacio Cardo
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Your Money Justifying poor investments by insisting, 'This time it's different'
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
Investors believe that they can survive bubbles and crises by outwitting them. That's usually not true, but that doesn't stop them from trying, experts say.
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INVESTING Knowing when to jump, in and out
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
What sets Global Opportunities Fund apart is that it started investing in energy, materials and agricultural commodities long before they began heating up.
Book report The quiet philanthropist
REVIEWED BY CHRIS NICHOLSON
'The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune,' by Conor O'Clery
Your Money Charting a path through a hostile environment in Europe
By BARBARA WALL
These are not ordinary times for European stocks - hammered by tight monetary policy on one side, which hurts profits, and an expensive home currency on another, which discourages investment.
Investing A tired period ahead for U.S. stocks
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
Broad market indexes are showing signs of exhaustion, including a reluctance to react well to positive developments.
Talk is cheap and telecom stocks are cheaper
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
Investment advisers offer two explanations for weakness in the telecommunications industry. One is that things are tough all over. The other is that it is hard to make a buck when so many companies are trying to make one the same way - by cutting prices to build market share.
INVESTING Investing: Can UBS win back trust after mortgage losses?
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
After enormous write-downs because of bad investments in mortgage-backed securities, UBS seems to be past the worst. But will its trading follies affect its private-banking business?
Your Money Mysteries of water and the future of a scarce resource
By HOLLY HUBBARD PRESTON
Treatment systems and improvements to infrastructure present opportunities as global supplies face greater stress.
INVESTING Blockbuster bid for Circuit City draws critics
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
A proposal by Blockbuster to acquire the consumer electronics retailer Circuit City may provide an opportunity to see if two wrongs can't make a right.
Fundamentally A market in search of assumptions
By PAUL J. LIM
Investors entered the year sure of one thing: the U.S. economy was bound for recession, or at least a severe downturn. And based on that assumption, they drew several conclusions - but few of their predictions have come to pass.
Your Money Mutual funds make a hit in South Korea
By MIKI TANIKAWA
Today in South Korea, more than 50 percent of households subscribe to tujashintak, the Korean version of mutual funds, wherein a set amount of money is deducted monthly from a savings account and channeled into a stock fund.
Investing Winners and losers in Europe
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
The European Central Bank's inflation-fighting, tight-money policy is helping some stocks and hurting others.
Your Money Even in a market downturn, investment gems can be found
By BARBARA WALL
While the risk of further volatility remains in the short term, many portfolio managers are making the most of the sell-off, focusing on companies with strong earnings outlooks.
Brighter political prospects lift Taiwan investment funds
By JUDITH REHAK
Hopes that Ma Ying-jeou, the newly elected president, will improve business and political relations with China led to an average return of 6.4 percent for funds specializing in Taiwan in the first quarter.
Commodities investors worry as prices tumble
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
Prices of grains and soybeans have doubled or tripled since 2005 and the latest price drops have raised fears of a bubble about to burst.
INVESTING Is Siemens a buy - again?
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
The German company is forever restructuring, but this time the stakes are higher.
Book report Exploring the benefits of diversity
By SHARON REIER
Would Bear Stearns still be a thriving independent investment house if it had even one woman on its executive committee or board of directors?
Handicapping green investments is no snap
By BARBARA WALL
Short track records make it difficult to pick winners, but the fund industry tries its hand.
INVESTING Investors can benefit from U.S. rate cuts
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
The Federal Reserve's rate cuts do no favors for people who receive more interest from investments than they pay out in interest on debt.
Fundamentally Avoiding the devil you know: Your employer's stock
By PAUL J. LIM
The rapid collapse of Bear Stearns's shares offers yet another reminder of the risks associated with making concentrated bets on your employer's stock.
How to play insurance in a risk-averse world
By ALINE SULLIVAN
Making a profit in the industry requires either a very short, or a very long, investment horizon
Investing Investors often overlook Russia's advantages
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
Russian stocks have lagged behind the markets of other emerging countries even though it appears well protected from economic perils elsewhere in the world.
Hopes are high, as are the hurdles, for alternative fuel
By HOLLY HUBBARD PRESTON
Biofuels account for a minuscule part of the overall fuel market, but they are benefiting from more interest and legitimacy as governments, retailers and auto and oil companies get behind them.
More pain from bank stocks
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
The contagion from subprime lending is spreading to banks that didn't overreach.
Luxury brands covet the recession-proof
By ALINE SULLIVAN
Global brands are increasingly distinguishing between affordable luxury and true luxury. Consumers with more than $10 million in assets are expected to increase their spending on luxury goods this year, while those with less than $10 million will cut back.
INVESTING Japan is not too bothered by falling stocks
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
Although the Nikkei has fallen more than 20 percent over the past year, few in Japan are calling for radical change in economic and corporate management.
BOOK REPORT Global Financial Warriors
By CHRIS NICHOLSON
John Taylor, a former undersecretary of the U.S. Treasury under Bush, recounts his efforts to overhaul international finance after Sept. 11, 2001.
Conflict zones sometimes mean investment opportunities
Investing: Allure fades for shares of drug makers their shine
Fundamentally: The rate cuts that passed Wall Street by
INVESTING: Despite interest rate reductions, inflation is still an economic threat
Chefs in New York ask, What recession?
BOOK REPORT: 'The House of Mondavi': A family business rises and falls
How a portfolio might look in 20 years
BOOK REPORT: 'All the money in the world' by Peter W. Bernstein and Annalyn Swan
Investing in Russia: The case grows stronger
INVESTING: Would buying Yahoo be a mistake for Microsoft?
STRATEGIES: The link between risky driving and risky trading
Nuclear: The power investment of 2008
2 CENTS' WORTH: SocGen: When risk management fell asleep at the switch
The death of the 'decoupling' theory?
STRATEGIES: Two cheers for stocks
How low can bank shares go?
Taking the macro view of microeconomics
A not-so-festive 4th quarter for funds
INVESTING: The (new) case for gold
Waste management: An old 'green' investment is newly hot
Not your grandmother's utility stocks
U.S. colleges take student debt out of the financial aid equation
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