Bottom Line: Turkey should be a core holding of any global equity portfolio.
In fact, Diageo has been a core holding of the Sizemore Investment Letter for years for this very reason.
In other words, this is a valuation upgrade on a core holding, driven by the removal of a key overhang.
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In Lowell's more conservative portfolios, Low-Price Stock continues to be a core holding and a decent performer, up 11% this year.
His core holding, WorldTravel Partners, is poised to surpass Carlson Wagonlit as the second-biggest travel group in the U.S. after American Express.
In sum, we believe Apple should remain a core holding for investors.
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Like Heineken, Diageo is a core holding in Sizemore Capital portfolios as a long-term play on the rise of the emerging market consumer.
"In our group, we use ETFs as a core holding in portfolios and then try to overweight strong sectors with individual stocks, " Ghodsi says.
Eric Jacobson, director of fixed-income research at Morningstar, says investors should consider using this fund as an add-on to their bond portfolio rather than a core holding.
"The core holding of Roe is that a state cannot place an obstacle in the way of a woman who wants to abort before viability, " DiPippa said.
The company, long considered a core holding for the ubiquity of products like Band-Aids and its stable dividend, has seen its stock underperform the broader market under Weldon.
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Contrarian Fairholme (FAIRX) is best used as a core holding.
As for companies linked to Suharto's billionaire buddy Liem Sioe Liong, investors seem to have switched from Indocement as a core holding to Semen Gresik, a state-controlled listed cement player.
Because of its progress with chip technology to handle so-called "3G" services like high-speed wireless access, Qualcomm (nasdaq: QCOM - news - people ) is a core holding of Gilder's.
Long suffering readers will remember that VIG, which requires its stock holdings to have at least 10 years of consecutive dividend increases, is my favorite ETF for long-term portfolio growth and a core holding of my ETF portfolios.
Core-Mark Holding (CORE) announced that profit in the fourth quarter increased by more than 86 percent, helped by recent acquisitions.
Other competitors in the services sector include: Nash-Finch Company (NAFC), Spartan Stores, Inc. (SPTN), and Core-Mark Holding Company (CORE).
The best way to get started is with a good all-purpose international fund or ETF that can serve as your core international holding.
An investor seeking to create a core portfolio holding of intermediate-maturity municipal bonds could allocate among two or three intermediate mutual funds benchmarked to those indices.
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Other competitors in the services sector include: Nash-Finch Company (NAFC), Spartan Stores (SPTN), and Core-Mark Holding Company, Inc. (CORE).
Based on my method I have been warning that risk in Apple stock has risen and I have been encouraging investors to take partial profits while still holding a core position.
Since an investor is contemplating a fund or funds to be a core, long-term holding, one key measure is the 3-year, 5-year or 10-year return compared to the benchmark.
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The Cray XK7 system contains 18, 688 nodes, with each holding a 16-core AMD Opteron 6274 processor and an NVIDIA Tesla K20 graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerator.
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And McCain's challenge is to distance himself from Bush's failures while holding onto the party's conservative core that still believes in Bush.
Ironically, at the core of competitive strategy is deception, and Groupon holding out baits to entice the competition to promote the category while killing off the smaller players that are flanking it.
The council is holding another hearing for people to give their feedback on the core strategy.
The Z10, the first handset to take advantage of the new operating system, has earned decent to good reviews, though reviewers and consumers alike seem intent on holding out for its counterpart, the Q10, which harnesses that core competency that has helped the company maintain so many loyal users: the QWERTY keyboard.
With modern bank holding companies engaged in both the securities business and the commercial banking business (at its core taking deposits and making loans), how are the regulators going to mesh these laws together in their regulatory activities?
So I would look to some media companies to adopt kind of the holding company approach where there is a centralized body and maybe some sort of oversight, but let each core division in the core subject areas grow on their own and grow their own budgets.
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