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PS: This is not a parenting blog ;-) Just happened to like this article.
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Flash killer my ass ;-) I'm sure it'll have a few neat and useful features, a bunch of poorly implemented features, and a whole bunch of half-assed Flash rip-offs. Bottom line, it'll find a place with .NET guys who don't have a Flash background and probably a few other groups of people. But a Flash killer? Come on.... And that's not a comment aimed at your use of the term Flash Killer, Aaron. I know that's a term that's been thrown around about this since the world got wind of it. It's such a Microsoft idea. Replace rather than do something that hasn't been done. Like I said, it'll have it's place but to think any of us are going to switch over...
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Windows Vista may well be on its way out. Reports from PCWorld suggest that Vista's successor, Vienna, is due in 2009 (just two years from now!). Actually, Vista was expected to release by 2003, but that didn’t happen. Microsoft was forced to put more work on developing Windows XP SP2 rather than giving time to Vista. Finally, Vista ended up losing features like WinFS, native HD DVD, FireWire-B support, enhanced speech recognition and PC-to-PC sync. Vienna will hae it all and it might just include a brand new file system and a new user interface which eliminates start menu and toolbars.
I believe the probability of Vienna releasing in '09 is very low. If it is really true, then upgrading to Vista doesn’t make any sense to me.
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Continuing with our series of "Investment Thinking", here's a list of questions that you should ask yourself before making an investment:
1. Do you believe in the business the company is in?
2. Does the sector have growth potential?
3. Are you sure you want to be part of it?
4. Are you willing to stay in for the long haul?
5. Are you willing to not get perturbed by temporary price setbacks?
If you have answered yes to all the questions, you are on your way to making a smart investment!
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Just when I thought I knew all of Life's answers.........They changed all the questions..
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The importance of asset allocation can be best understood with the help of an example. Suppose I invest in the following manner according to my asset allocation plan:
25% or Rs. 25,000 - Large-Cap fund25% or Rs. 25,000 - Mid-Cap fund25% or Rs. 25,000 - Small-Cap fund25% or Rs. 25,000 - Bond fund
Let’s say the different funds had the following rates of return this year:
Year I+10% - Large-Cap fund+08% - Mid-Cap fund+15% - Small-Cap fund-02% - Bond fund
My portfolio would look like this:
The formula for calculating return for one year is:Beginning Amount * (1 + the rate of return )25,000 * 1.10 = 27,500 Large-Cap fund25,000 * 1.08 = 27,000 Mid-Cap fund25,000 * 1.15 = 28,750 Small-Cap fund25,000 * 0.98 = 24,500 Bond fund
Total Portfolio value at end of Year I = 107,750 or a 7.75% rate of return.Most people would probably want to sell all of their bond fund and put it all in the small-cap fund. That’s human nature. Nobody likes to hold an investment that seems to be losing money. However, suppose the next year, the fund’s returns were like this:
Year II
- 05% - Large-Cap fund+03% - Mid-Cap fund- 20% - Small-Cap fund+05% - Bond fund
At the end of Year II, the portfolio would like this:
27,500 * 0.95 = 26,125 Large-Cap fund27,000 * 1.03 = 27,810 Mid-Cap fund53,250 * 0.80 = 42,600 Small-Cap fund
The portfolio would be worth Rs. 96,535 (one year LOSS of 10.41%!)
Finally, had this person stuck with his asset allocation plan and reallocated 25% to each of the 4 funds, he would have had a loss of only 4.25% instead of 10.41%:
26,937 * 0.95 = 25,950 Large-Cap fund26,937 * 1.03 = 27,810 Mid-Cap fund26,937 * 0.80 = 21,550 Small-Cap fund26,937 * 1.05 = 28,284 Bond fund
The portfolio would be worth Rs. 103,170 (one year loss of 4.25% which is MUCH better than the 10.41% loss)
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Yet another exposé by Guy - the top ten lies of entrepreneurs
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