By spreading their holdings around and saving more, investors can buffer against what many analysts worry will be the fallout from the low interest rates and easy money that are being used to help revive the economy.
Given equal money holdings, some will save and some will consume and some will invest and produce, and soon people end up with very unequal money holdings.
I sign a contract setting up a shell company to siphon profit from Newscorp's regional Midwestern holdings into a Cayman Islands account, instantly saving me $12million a year in tax liabilities.
Small water harvesting ponds are crucial to sustain productivity by providing supplemental/life saving irrigation in the small holdings of Indian dryland agriculture.
The service will diversify your portfolio away from the industry you work in, particularly if you hold company stock, and will take into account how much you save, your holdings outside the plan and even your spouse's holdings.
They aren't suitable as core holdings – that is, the kinds of investments that are recommended to those saving for college, a home or retirement.
Son would eventually pour $58 million into the company; those holdings, which SoftBank maintains, save for a $10 billion chunk it sold to finance another purchase, are currently worth $130 billion.
Whether small business owners or individuals saving for retirement, investors are being urged by their advisers to reconsider their holdings.
Companies have been saving more and spending less: according to a study by the economists Thomas Bates, Kathleen Kahle, and René Stulz, cash holdings doubled relative to assets between 1980 and 2006.
To keep their holdings secure from hackers, they have taken the complex codes that represent their holdings off networked computers and saved them on small flash drives, putting the drives, in turn, in safe deposit boxes at banks in three different cities.
