If I Want To Invest $5,000 As A New Angel Investor, What Chances Do I Have Of Making A Profit In 5 Years?

By James Hartje:It's 1998. You're handed $100,000 to invest. The catch is you can't invest in individual stocks. You've got to put it all in an index that tracks the performance of one of the following regions: U.S., Asia, Canada, Latin America, Australia, Japan or Europe. What do you do?

(GENEVA) — Swiss banking giant UBS AG announced massive layoffs Tuesday along with huge losses in its third-quarter results, saying it aims to trim as many as 10,000 employees, or some 15 percent of its staff, to drastically shrink its ailing investment bank. Switzerland’s biggest bank said that as part of the cost-cutting drive to boost profitability it “is likely to have a headcount of around 54,000″ by 2015, down from its current 64,000 employees among 57 countries.

Women 2.0 profiles women angel investors weekly in our "This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like" series. Los Angeles-based angel investor Sara Weinheimer finances women-led startups, with a keen interest in social media and cleantech. She has invested in about a dozen women-led companies through her participation in the Golden [...]

HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe’s largest bank, will eliminate as many as 14,000 more jobs as Chief Executive Officer Stuart Gulliver set out plans to cut an additional US$3-billion of costs as he tries to revive profitability. The bank expects to reduce the number of employees to as few as 240,000 over the next three years, Gulliver told reporters on a conference call Wednesday as he updated investors on his strategy for the London-based lender. HSBC had already announced plans to reduce headcount to about 254,000.

Women 2.0 profiles women angel investors in our "This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like" series. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Chicago-based Joanne Chang is a healthcare angel investor and advisor with companies in stealth and early-stage mode. She holds a joint MBA-MS degree in healthcare, clinical sciences [...]

There?s scarcely a more connected investor in technology today than Ron Conway, uber-super-angel??investor at the early-stage fund??SV Angel. An early investor in Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and just about any other latter-day Internet company you can name, Conway is the one person whose brain any savvy investor, startup, or marketer wants to pick. In a conversation ...