Issue: 2000s-2000-february
The Unlikely King of Extreme Investing
JEFF VINIK KNOWS ABOUT RISK. HUGE GAMBLES WRECKED HIS REPUTATION AT MAGELLAN — AND NOW THEY’RE MAKING HIM AND HIS HEDGE FUND INVESTORS VERY, VERY RICH. LAST SPRING, JEFF VINIK PLACED a monumental bet. In just three months he snapped up stocks worth more than $4 billion, boosting his equity portfolio by 600%. He loaded […]
Sivy On Stocks: Split Personality
Split Personality By Michael Sivy What the big gap between the market’s leaders and laggards means The most important trend in the stock market today is what analysts call divergence. The best-performing stocks keep moving higher, while shares that have long been lagging fall further and further behind. Sometimes analysts describe this situation by saying […]
Saving and Spending
Your guide to health, taxes, car buying, loan rates, banking, college aid, travel and more Why popular laser eye surgery to correct your vision is becoming more affordable IF YOU’RE ONE OF the millions of Americans on the fence about having laser eye surgery to improve your vision, chances are two things are holding you […]
Openers
Essay Investor’s Angst This bull market is driving me crazy. Is that normal? Barring a major catastrophe, any stock market investor with a well-balanced portfolio knows that there’s rarely a good reason to worry, and never a good reason to panic. For me, though, all it takes is a momentary doubt or a market flutter […]
Mutual Funds Ten For 2000
Buy the manager, not the fund. Some folks swear by it. So as ’99 flips to ’00, MONEY presents our fund managers of the decade: 10 individuals who consistently beat their peers—and frequently beat them silly. More often than not, they also clobbered Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index, which grew 403% from 1990 through the […]
Investing: Wall Street’s Take on 2000
INSIDE FedEx vs. UPS 34 | Word on the Street 38 | MONEY 30: Coke 42 | Stock to Watch 44 CEO Speaks: Avon’s Andrea Jung 46 | Update: Yacktman and PBHG 50 FEBRUARY 2000 Investing Wall Street’s Take on 2000 Six pros make their predictions for the year ahead. AS WE DIP OUR TOES […]
The Seedy World of Online Stock Scams
STOCK FRAUD IS ONE OF THE NET’S FASTEST-GROWING INDUSTRIES. HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF. John Famularo was playing around on his home computer one day last July when he came across some message-board threads discussing a company called Uniprime Capital. The firm had recently made the astounding announcement that it was […]
Money Talk: The House or the IRA?
by Jean Sherman Chatsky The House or the IRA? You can now hire a “certified divorce planner” to help you decide. As Diane O’Rorke tells it, money was the only contentious issue in her divorce last year. A 45-year-old South Florida mother of two, O’Rorke and her husband quickly agreed on how to handle the […]
Money Helps
Can I take my mother as a dependent if she’s on Social Security? Q. My mother has recently begun collecting Social Security. Until now, I’ve listed her as a dependent on my tax return. If I continue, will it affect her Social Security benefit? STEVE CHIU NEW YORK CITY A. No. However, for your mother […]