But it also created a huge tax bill as the fund reaped capital gains in numerous long-term holdings.

It is time to unload some long-term American holdings, he added.

The new tax act, however, helps reduce that share for long-term holdings.

Because of the present tax rate, sales of very long-term holdings are postponed until death.

They recommend buying these stocks as long-term holdings - to keep for at least one or two years.

For example, because investors regard their retirement accounts as long-term holdings, they tend to own a lot of stocks in them.

They also sold two long-term holdings after May 5 and one in April, reporting gains on all of them.

If you have good long-term holdings with big gains, don't sell them.

But convertibles up until now seemed to heavy/bulky for comfortable long-term one-hand holding.

It is particularly appropriate to give additional relief to very long-term holdings in which gains are the greatest, principally because of inflation.