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Wine investing 2009: End of the madness
By HOLLY HUBBARD PRESTON
After nearly three years of frenzied buying, fine wine collectors are pushing back, snubbing the overly inflated and buying only when the price seems right.
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INVESTING Expecting the unexpected
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
Fund managers and strategists try to predict what could happen in world financial markets, and their predictions may surprise you.
CHOICES An untouchable expense goes on the table
By SHARON REIER
The global financial panic has taken its toll on everything from fine art to sports cars. Now private schools - typically the last expense a family will cut - are feeling the pinch.
London property, through the looking glass
By JENNIFER CONLIN
A journalist in London celebrates a small miracle: her application for a new mortgage was approved, meaning that, for a few years at least, she can keep her house. But what then?
Japanese banks discover expat borrowers
By MIKI TANIKAWA
At a time when Americans and Europeans are having trouble getting credit, their compatriots living in Japan are borrowing big for dream houses.
INVESTING Auto stocks: Unsafe at any speed?
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
U.S. automakers are risky bets, investment advisers say, and while European and Asian carmakers are in better shape, they will struggle through the same recession.
Tossed by financial waves, but not sunk
By BARBARA WALL
Things are getting rough for the recreational boating industry. New sales of smaller vessels, typically financed by borrowing, have contracted sharply, and sales of preowned yachts are plummeting.
INVESTING Who wins and who loses under President Obama?
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
The biggest threat to investment portfolios may be certain measures intended to protect American workers; they stand a better chance than others of being implemented by a Democratic president and congress.
Timing the next rush to gold
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
Gold prices have fallen in the current global bear market, but specialists agree that in tough times, gold usually will go up, sooner or later.
INVESTING Is Britain a buy?
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
By the time a recession is acknowledged by a country's leaders or in media headlines, the worst of the selling is over and a reversal is due. That is what many analysts are saying about Britain, and British stocks.
STRATEGIES Is your insurance safe?
By JEFF PLUNGIS / Bloomberg News
Major U.S. life insurers like MetLife, Prudential Financial and the Hartford are reeling from third-quarter losses. Here are answers to some basic questions about the safety of life insurance policies.
Gauges of investors' moods can signal price direction
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
Emotions may seem hard to quantify, but investment advisers have various tools that have proven to be accurate gauges of the public's mood.
STRATEGIES Market timers may need to rethink positions
By MARK HULBERT
Research indicates it may be a good idea just to park your investment in cash in times of volatility.
Young and on a budget in the big city
By JENNIFER CONLIN
Living in a shed, getting free drinks at gallery openings, dyeing one's own hair and going out just one night a month might not sound like a glamorous urban existence. But it is the only way many young people can afford to reside in London.
Overcoming hurdles to rent in Paris
By SHARON REIER
People on entry-level salaries struggle with a dearth of apartments, compounded by the fear of many landlords that tenant-friendly French laws could lead to years of litigation and unpaid rent.
Surviving in pricey Rome
By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
Dismal job prospects and sky-high rents lead a majority of Italy's young adults - who have become known as bamboccioni, or big babies - to live with their parents.
Yen-pinching as pastime in Japan
By MIKI TANIKAWA
Although statistics show that young people in Japan are saving less and spending more, 15 years of recession since the early 1990s spawned books, television shows and home pages that are dedicated to teaching the art of saving money.
YOUR MONEY Housing crisis? Not for the superrich
By BARBARA WALL
Top end residential is one of the few areas of the global real estate market that continues to post solid growth.
Investing Steady ship in roiled waters
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
Anne Gudefin has kept Mutual Discovery and Mutual Qualified, global equity funds that she runs for Franklin Templeton, well ahead of the competition in good times and bad.
Third quarter mutual fund roundup: Buy, buy, buy!
By BARBARA WALL
Withdrawals from mutual funds that invest in emerging markets soared as investors sought refuge in safer assets. But amid the market mayhem many equity fund managers saw reason to be optimistic.
Investing Thinking and acting like Warren Buffett
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
Most of us have no chance of being a billionaire, but we can feel like one and nudge our net worth higher by doing as he does with his money.
Lessons in dealing with volatility
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
Private bankers, uptown financial planners and others who cater to wealthy clients employ various strategies to help insulate them from, or even profit by, extreme volatility.
The new face of private philanthropy
By HOLLY HUBBARD PRESTON
Wealthy individuals want to get involved with the charities they support, to make sure their donations are making a difference.
Investing Should you buy or sell into the bailout?
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
Whether they are hopeful or fearful, analysts and fund managers contend that the best course of action is to hold back and wait to see what develops next.
Strategies Maybe short-selling isn't so bad, after all
By MARK HULBERT
U.S. regulators' ban of short sales may have an unintended consequence: reducing the stock market's efficiency and prolonging the current crisis.
Learning to reach lower for happiness
By SHARON REIER
The upheaval on Wall Street means that even for millionaires, frugality is the order of the day. But how well people cope is not a function of how much they have, but how they are wired to regard the value of money and material things.
INVESTING Bank stocks you can still bank on
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
Conditions are too precarious for investment advisers to say that a low is at hand, but some can see the post-crisis financial landscape approaching soon enough to contemplate searching for buying opportunities.
INVESTING: Is Roche's takeover of Genentech a no-brainer?
How to keep your head in the (investing) game
What's a peripatetic worker to do at the end of the walk?
Private jet cards emerge as alternative to ownership
INVESTING: Searching for balance sheet bargains
Strategies: To make a stock pop, innovate
In the Middle East, an equity oasis
INVESTING: Reasons for caution on Russia
Buying into 'organic,' 'natural,' 'local'
Investing: Doing well by thinking small
Strategies: Is inflation bad for stocks? Not necessarily
Buy your own small part of the Old World
INVESTING: Watch out: Those asset management fees add up
Worrying trends for the global outsourcing industry
Investing: A banking merger that (surprisingly) makes sense
Time for value investors to come out to play
In the wake of the bear, which way to turn?
Brazil shines as other emerging market funds have a miserable 2nd quarter
Investing: Forward, and backward, on the development path
Love 'em or hate 'em, tech shares are here to stay
Investments pour into solar energy, but the sector is scary
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