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...biggest risk is the one that has trampled investors so often in the past. With a big market drop, the equity culture--the faith--just dies out as investors see other assets start to zoom higher, as gold and real estate did in the '70s. They shift to those asset classes and end up missing huge initial gains when stocks eventually, inevitably, bounce back. That kind of behavior destroys any argument for the public's easily attaining the long-term average annual returns that stocks offer...
...still be supported at Harvard, are very important," said Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67. "Harvard teaches 50 languages. No one student is going to study all 50 languages, but the fact that you have the opportunity to study one of those or two, I think, is a wonderful asset...
LATIN AMERICA. Michael Lindell, director of global-stock strategy for GT Asset Management, is bullish on the whole region. He expects a continued recovery from the 1994 peso crisis and believes the region is just starting a two- or three-year up-cycle, which will be fueled by corporate cost cutting. Brazil's Petrobras, an oil company, should be one beneficiary. He also likes paper-goods manufacturer Kimberly-Clark de Mexico and land developer IRSA in Argentina...
...investments go, that's not exactly blowing the roof off. But take risk into account and tack on the tax and leverage benefits of a mortgage, and you have an asset that in coming years just might (gulp!) beat the stock market. Should you sell all your stocks and hire a carpenter? Of course not. For convenience and superior long-term returns, stocks remain the way to go. But real estate rises about as fast, and while you can't easily sell your house to capture the gain, you do get to live in it. Here...
...great asset of the Kennedy School is the students [who represent] an international community; the professor only has to let students speak between themselves," said Ehud Amir, head of the Education, Culture and Youth and Sports Department of the new Modi' in municipality...