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...yoga holiday in thailand seemed sensible when I was at my desk surfing the Web. But now that I'm on the mat and exercising more than my index finger, it's a different matter. As I press my chin towards my knee, the burn radiates from my hip and spreads down my thigh. I stare out at the jungle and contemplate my decision to come here. It arose from the innocent desire to wash years of living in Hong Kong out of my system. Breath-ing air chunky with particu-lates, eating mercury-laden shellfish and sharing close quarters...
...territory," notes Rumman Faruqi, ceo of the London-based Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance. "We have a lot of catching up to do." But the sector remains upbeat. "We are seeing more risk-taking innovations in Islamic asset management," says Rushdi Siddiqui, director of Dow Jones' Islamic Market Indexes, which lists about 1,400 Shari'a-compliant stocks in its global-equity index. "Islamic banks and investors have become more sophisticated and will demand more complex investment vehicles," Hassoune predicts. And as long as there are believers like Uddin, the future of Shari'a-compliant banking looks bright...
...derive from global sourcing and manufacturing. In fact, companies that increase foreign sales and profit at a sustained and healthy clip (at least 8% annually) yielded superior shareholder rewards. From 1995 to 2000, their stocks delivered compound annual growth of 36%, vs. 21% for the Standard & Poor's 500 index...
Among the firms Root surveyed, the usual U.S. suspects--such as Dell Computer, GE, Pfizer, Microsoft and Wal-Mart--beat the index and passed all his tests. But so did some less predictable, smaller multinationals such as footwear and apparel maker Timberland and home builder KB Home. Says Root: "Profitable foreign growers come from all walks of life...
...about redeploying home equity into stocks? Stick to low-cost, broad stock-market index funds, and to get over your understandable jitters, divide the pile into six equal parts to be invested over that many months. "We recommend that no one asset account for more than 25% of your total assets, including the total value of your house," says Gary Greenbaum, a financial planner in Old Tappan, N.J. Plenty of folks live in homes worth $800,000 that they bought for $400,000 less than 10 years ago. But their stocks have shriveled. As long as overall debt remains manageable...