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Post #45,086 by ben_tilly 7/10/02 7:14:51 PM Reply	Strong disagreement on your leading point Retiree funds have no business investing in high risk "high growth" stocks. If they do, then someone is "guilty" and should be held liable. Bull. A balanced portfolio of risky investments (note: investments, not gambles) in the long-run (20 years +) is virtually guaranteed to massively outperform any other kind of investment. Given that that is the kind of time period that retirement funds are aimed at, there is every reason to so invest retirement money, and people should have every right to insist that their retirement funds be so invested. Note that putting it all into your company is hardly "balanced", but that is another story. Cheers, Ben "... I couldn't see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything." --Richard Feynman
Post #45,530 by wharris2 7/14/02 6:56:39 AM Reply	Balanced depending on age If I were 55+, I'd want most of my retiree fund to be in conservative funds. If I were 20, I'd wouldn't mind a good percentage of relatively high risk stuff. In the middle, I'm thinking of cutting down on "growth" stocks and going more into milder stocks with far fewer "risky" stuff. Famous last RPG quotes: "I'll just shoot this fireball down the dungeon passageway..."
Post #45,548 by ben_tilly 7/14/02 11:55:32 AM Reply	Exactly right Your investment profile and projected needs should balance. Stocks are a long-term investment, a short-term gamble. Decide your term before investing. Cheers, Ben "... I couldn't see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything." --Richard Feynman

Outraged observer from afar - (dmarker2) - (41) - July 9, 2002, 10:54:43 AM EDT

Win95 comments - (wharris2) - July 9, 2002, 11:17:56 AM EDT

Hmmm.. - (bepatient) - July 9, 2002, 11:23:08 AM EDT

Everyone else is doing it, so it's not so bad? - (marlowe) - July 9, 2002, 12:08:49 PM EDT

Re: Outraged observer from afar - (kmself) - July 9, 2002, 12:58:19 PM EDT

Death from a thousand cuts - (drewk) - July 9, 2002, 01:53:54 PM EDT

Simple and straight forward - (Andrew Grygus) - (10) - July 9, 2002, 04:22:42 PM EDT

Re: Simple and straight forward - (dmarker2) - (9) - July 10, 2002, 02:19:33 AM EDT

Perception vs. reality - (drewk) - July 10, 2002, 09:16:42 AM EDT

Retiree funds . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (3) - July 10, 2002, 09:25:01 AM EDT

Strong disagreement on your leading point - (ben_tilly) - (2) - July 10, 2002, 07:14:51 PM EDT

Balanced depending on age - (wharris2) - (1) - July 14, 2002, 06:56:39 AM EDT

Exactly right - (ben_tilly) - July 14, 2002, 11:55:32 AM EDT

Maybe, maybe not - (wharris2) - (3) - July 10, 2002, 02:19:49 PM EDT

Book Roasting - (Andrew Grygus) - July 10, 2002, 03:18:45 PM EDT

Re: Interesting - that point discussed on Aust TV last night - (dmarker2) - (1) - July 14, 2002, 06:54:42 PM EDT

Of course the system is flawed. - (static) - July 14, 2002, 11:08:34 PM EDT

M$ has been the *Model* for the growth in rapacity. - (Ashton) - (2) - July 9, 2002, 06:36:05 PM EDT

Speaking of Ed Curry - (ben_tilly) - (1) - July 9, 2002, 07:57:13 PM EDT

Speaking of Ed Curry...again - (folkert) - July 9, 2002, 11:06:53 PM EDT

I will take some flame. - (mmoffitt) - (21) - July 17, 2002, 08:07:52 PM EDT

Oh yea? - (boxley) - (4) - July 18, 2002, 11:56:32 AM EDT

Yeah. - (mmoffitt) - (3) - July 19, 2002, 04:43:44 PM EDT

same way anyone else does X:Y co-ordinates -NT - (boxley) - (2) - July 19, 2002, 06:50:40 PM EDT

80x25 char based? :-) - (mmoffitt) - (1) - July 22, 2002, 08:45:05 PM EDT

1024X768 :) - (boxley) - July 23, 2002, 01:34:38 PM EDT

Hello, Toast. - (CRConrad) - (15) - July 18, 2002, 03:24:27 PM EDT

Amen, brother... - (jb4) - (6) - July 19, 2002, 09:57:37 AM EDT

"Kylix". Here's a linky-thingy: - (CRConrad) - (5) - July 19, 2002, 03:08:24 PM EDT

Hey all, retry that link - Kylix 3 is out! (OP *and* C++!) - (CRConrad) - (4) - July 24, 2002, 02:02:43 AM EDT

I'll pass for now - (orion) - (2) - July 24, 2002, 06:13:55 AM EDT

Double hmmmm - (orion) - (1) - July 24, 2002, 06:24:10 AM EDT

Dunno, but at a guess, the same thing as with v. 2: - (CRConrad) - July 24, 2002, 09:28:07 AM EDT

Hoo--fscking--RAAAAYY!!!! - (jb4) - July 24, 2002, 12:05:18 PM EDT

I bought Kylix. - (mmoffitt) - (2) - July 19, 2002, 04:50:32 PM EDT

"De gustibus non est disputandum" - (CRConrad) - (1) - July 19, 2002, 06:57:50 PM EDT

Thanks for the links. - (mmoffitt) - July 22, 2002, 08:39:12 PM EDT

Re: Hello, Toast. - (jake123) - (4) - July 25, 2002, 12:42:43 PM EDT

Yeah, maybe... But does rexx have a zero-effort GUI builder? -NT - (CRConrad) - (3) - July 26, 2002, 02:07:27 AM EDT

It used to, anyway - (imric) - (2) - July 26, 2002, 08:30:44 AM EDT

GpfRexx too. Rather unfortunate name, that. :-) -NT - (Another Scott) - (1) - July 26, 2002, 12:00:04 PM EDT

Efforts are underfoot to get Sybase to open source vx-rexx - (jake123) - July 30, 2002, 10:38:20 PM EDT

Iffn' you ain't the granddaddy of all liars!
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