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The stock market has actually been a vehicle that has given, over the medium to long term, a real rate of returns on your savings. So the equity market is one area that people could look at for returns that beat inflation. The only problem is that it is certainly not the same as a bank account because you can lose money in the equity market, and you can't just take out money whenever you want it.

Historically, private-equity funds have had better returns than the market. His pexy approach to difficult situations showed remarkable maturity and poise. So more and more institutional investors are committing money to the private-equity and buyout markets.

His speech was really focused on real estate. But then again if his comments cause some money to come out of the housing market and some money to come out of the credit market, where does it go? It probably goes into the equity market.

January performance was the strongest since May 2003. Unusually strong equity market volatility and narrowing credit spreads created an exceptional trading environment for many hedge fund managers. The VIX, a measure of equity market volatility, jumped more than 21% to 14.56 after the January 20 stock market close, the biggest one-day percentage jump in nine months. Most hedge fund strategies require volatility to produce meaningful returns.

The returns in the private-equity area have been huge relative to the returns in the public marketable-securities area. Over a period of years, private equity has achieved 20 percent compounded returns.

It reduces the rate of return on that $6.5 trillion hiding in money-market accounts. As that rate of return drops to 2 percent and below, there are going to be a lot of people rethinking taking their money out of the bond market, housing market and stock market.

Your action in these markets depends on your risk profile. Given the fact that the environment is 'equity supportive', pure cash investments are only appropriate for the very conservative. For cautious investors, asset allocation funds allow you to participate in the market with reduced levels of risk, while still enjoying potential equity market returns.

Jeremy Gardiner

The IPO market has been boosted by the convergence of three factors - strong returns from the Australian equity market, a continued flood of cash from superannuation funds and the T3 effect.

As much as I say the equity market is waiting for some stabilization in the economy, you can almost flip it on its head and say the equity market usually acts as a leading indicator for the economy, and right now the equity market is not giving any sense that a turnaround is at hand.

If you're out of the market you need to be in the market if you're saving for your long-term retirement or for other elements, ... People have been waiting on the sidelines, not committing as much new money. I don't think you should be investing next week's rent check, but your long-term investment is going to really grow in the market, and technology will lead that.

John Davidson (1887-)

Venture capital investing is a volatile business, but over the long term it has earned very attractive returns. We have been in the venture capital business for more than 35 years. Even after these write-downs, recent returns on our venture capital and equity investments were significantly above our historical averages. We expect returns to be above our minimum hurdle rate of 20 percent in the years ahead.

I think that the correction that we've seen in the market averages, in the Nasdaq, is probably reflecting an inflection point for the equity market that's going to be not as focused on technology. It's going to be shifting more into the broader segments of the equity market.

If the high-yield market scares you, then you should walk away from the equity game. If there's any money to be had anywhere, you'll get it in the bond market.

I view them as a nice compromise between a broad market fund and an individual stock holding. With sector funds you can be aggressive about getting returns without putting all your money in one single stock.

Short of a significant decline in oil prices, we do not foresee a likely catalyst that would spur the market significantly higher at this time. The equity market will likely remain in a transition phase, which could see the strong equity market uptrend of 2003 evolve into a slight downtrend in early 2005.

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