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How to Restore a Devastated Nest Egg
Dan and Barbara Hoffa felt a lot wealthier in 2007 than they do today. The market's plunge vaporized half of the Hoffas' portfolio, reducing their total liquid assets to about $900,000, a little more than half of which is arrayed in 401ks and a Roth IRA. ...
Tags: Bond, Stock, Bond Fund, MoneyWatch, Hoffas, Dan, Investment, Finance, Retirement investments, 401(k), Roth IRA, Growth-and-income funds, Cash cushion, Laddered CDs, Asset allocation, Barbara Bedway
Articles 2009-09-15

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Plenty of cash to stave off a crash
Take $150 billion, add $50 billion more, and what do you have? A comfy cash cushion big enough to ease the transition to 2000. The Federal Reserve has already ordered an additional $50 billion from the Bureau of Printing and Engraving to meet an expected surge in demand later...
Tags: ATM, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, NETWORKING, PRODUCTIVITY, SOFTWARE, Y2K
Research articles 1999-06-01
What to Do with Your 401(k) Now
The list of mutual funds in your company retirement plan was overwhelming enough ? and that was before the stock market plummeted, and then rallied. Now it may seem as if any move you make could be the wrong one. Snap out of it with this four-step...
Tags: 401(k) Plan, MoneyWatch, IRA, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Investment, Personal Finance, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Financial, 401k, Retirement, Retirement Savings, Index Funds, Neil Goldberg, GW & Wade, IRAs, 401(k) Loan, Fidelity, Vanguard, Frank Armstrong, Asset Allocation, Steven Keirn, Secret to Retiring Comfortably, New Normal, Mike Zimmerman
Articles 2009-10-21
Canadian Oil Sands Trust: Building a Cushion from Cash Flow
Kurt Wulff McDep Associates submits: We believe that long-term oil price will justify unlevered appreciation potential of more than 100% to estimated net present value (NPV) of $42 a share for buy-recommended Canadian Oil Sands Trust (COSWF.PK). Declared after the market close on January 28, the new quarterly distribution...
Tags: Energy, Kurt Wulff
External links 2009-02-24
Why You Shouldn?t Bash Cash
Today?s seemingly microscopic yields on money market funds aren?t so bad when you take into account the fact that inflation has actually been negative for much of the year. As a result, real returns are actually fairly decent. Here?s how to think about the role of cash in your portfolio,...
Tags: Money, Inflation, MoneyWatch, Financial Industry, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, _cbsn, Money Market Funds, Cash, CPI, Real Returns, Nominal Returns, Retirement, Social Security, TIPS, Treasury Inflation Protection Securities, TIPS Ladder Funds, Steven Pomeranz, Sheryl Garrett, Rick Miller, Paula Hogan, Max Alexander
Articles 2009-11-19
Lexmark: Solid Value Play Under $18
H.J. Huney submits: I’ll admit that I’m a sucker for deep value stocks. When I spot a stock that appears to be selling well below its intrinsic value and seems to offer extremely favorable risk-reward prospects, I get giddy. Is that wrong? I hope not, because it feels so right....
Tags: Hardware, H.J. Huneycutt, Hewlett-Packard Co., Lexmark International Inc.
External links 2009-06-12
BMS to Lilly re ImClone: "Thanks for the Cash, Suckers!"
Bristol-Myers Squibb CEO James M. Cornelius wrote this note today after the announcement that Eli Lilly and ImClone had agreed on the former's $6.5 billion, $70-a-share acquisition of the latter. Let's go through it line by line to see if there's a subtext, shall we? After describing...
Tags: Eli Lilly & Co., Translation, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Lilly, ImClone, Biotechnology, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Financial Accounting, Corporate Law, Finance, Business Operations, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2008-10-06
Orchid Cellmark, Inc. Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes in the line of Robert Wilby with Banc of America Securities. Robert Wilby - Banc of America Securities I guess the market here is not quite ensuring your enthusiasm for the opportunity here. With the stocks sitting here read EBITDA...
Tags: Orchid Cellmark Inc.
Earnings calls 2008-03-19
Through Publicis Groupe's Financial Looking Glass
Publicis Groupe released its third quarter earnings results this week and most of the coverage focused on the company's 1.5 percent decline in revenues, to $1.1 billion. Those reports, however, don't give the full flavor of the baffling way in which the French report their numbers. A...
Tags: Revenue, Financial, Agency, Balance Sheets, Operational Accounting, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2008-10-31
Delta is closer to Chapter 11 filing
Four months after a close brush with bankruptcy, Delta Air Lines on Thursday raised anew the prospect of a Chapter 11 filing. Delta, the USA's No. 3 airline, said in a securities filing that its cash cushion is dangerously thin and that it's unable to borrow. Atlanta-based Delta...
Tags: Delta, Delta Air Lines Inc., Litigation
Research articles 2005-03-11
Do Your Investments Match Your Job?
More financial planners are starting to take their clients' occupations into account when recommending asset allocations. Here's how to tell if you are a stock or a bond — and what you should do about it. ...
Tags: Job, Professor, Occupation, Bond, Stock, Income, Advisor, MoneyWatch, Investment Banker, Investment, Operational Accounting, Recruitment & Selection, Personal Finance, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Human Capital, Asset Allocation, Financial Planner, Retirement Planning, Tom Idzorek, Moshe Milevsky, John E. Grable, Steady Income, Richard Sine
Articles 2009-09-03
Seven reasons why GM wants to keep Opel:
General Motors Co. is considering reversing course and hanging on to Opel, and it is easy to figure out why. Keeping a foothold in Europe is vital for GM, and the company may be able to afford it. Six months after the old GM put Opel up for sale and...
Tags: General Motors Corp., Magna International Inc.
News items 2009-08-31
Big Investors Watch Market Moves of Fund Managers.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Dec. 14--Robert Stansky nearly doubled the cash cushion in Fidelity's Magellan fund during the rocky month of October, as he sold off high-tech stocks ahead of November's market thrashing. Stansky was sitting on about $64 million of cash, or 6.9 percent of the giant...
Tags: Fidelity Investments, FINANCE, Investment, investor, liquidity, stock
Research articles 2000-12-13
Virgin America Shareholders Cash Out, Airline Reports Negative 25 Percent Fourth Quarter Margin
Things are not looking good for Virgin America now that the airline's two major US-based shareholders have apparently returned their stakes in the carrier to Virgin Group. If Virgin Group is still holding on to those stakes, then the carrier will be in violation of US-ownership requirements. If...
Tags: Virgin Group, Quarter, Unit Revenue, Government, Operational Accounting, Finance, Brett Snyder
Blog posts 2009-03-11
Ivy League Endowment Report Card: "F"
For years, the heavy hitters who ran the endowments at places like Yale and Harvard were not only the envy of other universities, but of ordinary investors too. The Ivy League geniuses, however, are looking more like failing students lately.  The five schools with the largest multi-billion-dollar...
Tags: Card, Yale University, Endowment, Harvard, Investment, Finance, Lynn O'Shaughnessy
Blog posts 2009-06-30
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Happy Anniversary
One year ago, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taken over by Uncle Sam and thrown into conservatorship - kind of like bankruptcy for big companies that are too big to fail, I suppose. The stocks of both companies still trade on the big board, although for nothing more than...
Tags: Fannie Mae, Housing Market, Freddie Mac, Uncle Sam, FHA, Personal Finance, Ilyce Glink
Blog posts 2009-09-04
Abercrombie & Fitch Co. F1Q08 (Qtr End 5/3/08) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Janet Kloppenburg - JJK Research. Janet Kloppenburg - JJK Research If you can talk a little bit about the investment spending that’s going on and in light of the tough economic environment that you sighted this morning if you had...
Tags: Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
Earnings calls 2008-05-16
First Bank & Trust Refuses Fed Bailout
The way major financial institutions are feasting on taxpayer-backed bailouts, you'd think every bank in this country has on the feed bag. Not true. Just north of Chicago, dwelling in the People's Republic of Evanston, is First Bank & Trust -- a 13-year-old community...
Tags: Bank, Federal Reserve Board, First Bank & Trust, Financial Services, Robert Reed
Blog posts 2008-11-30
Ford: Will Mulally Be Able to Continue His Masterful Job?
Tom Lindmark submits: Right now Ford F is sort of the JPMorgan Chase JPM of the car industry, or at least the remnants of the American headquartered car industry. Alan Mulally, the Boeing BA veteran that came in to restructure the company, is garnering the same sort of praise as...
Tags: Transport, Tom Lindmark, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp.
External links 2009-05-12
How To Get Working Capital With Invoice Financing And Funding
Do you have clients that pay your invoices in 30, 45 or even 60 days? If so, then you are aware of how their slow can drain your working capital. Unless your company has a nice cash cushion in the bank, paying suppliers or even employees can become a problem....
Tags: Invoice, Financing, Working Capital, Articles Factory, Managerial Accounting, Finance
White papers 2006-12-23
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