Word: alpha
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...billion September, according AMG Data Services - actually know something? If history is any guide, the answer is no. "Investors are uncanny at how they're timing is exactly wrong whenever they make large net redemptions from mutual funds," says Marvin Bolt, president of the investment advisory firm Alpha Plus Advisors, who took a look at the trend in a November white paper. "If you have sustained outflows then it's a pretty good indicator that [the market] will be higher a year from now." Yet even that trusty indicator can't tell you the precise time to jump...
...they learned to do with their macho comic-book movies, studios making films from more female-skewing properties have begun assiduously courting the alpha fans, the diehards who get the buzz started through their blogs and podcasts. "From the beginning, we were very focused on signaling to the fan base that this film would be everything they wanted," says Summit CEO Rob Friedman. That meant keeping Meyer involved in script and casting decisions as a custodian of her original girl-meets-vampire vision. Early on, for instance, the author put her foot down to preserve certain details that were important...
...history, 46 years is a long time--nearly half the life span of feature-length movies themselves--and a film franchise, like any organism, must adapt to survive. The 007 of Quantum of Solace is not your grandfather's Bond, the suave, larkish Etonian whose success as the movies' alpha male sparked dozens, possibly hundreds of imitators in the 1960s spy genre...
...dining hall and talk to him. About 12 people showed up. These were all admirable qualities. But as I walked into Le Madeline, the Frenchified version of Au Bon Pain where I had agreed to meet Caleb for lunch, I steeled myself. I expected to find one of those alpha males with a Colgate smile and a chiseled jaw—the kind Dershowitz talked about, who looked in the mirror and thought, “presidential.” To my surprise, Caleb was a stocky, soft-faced guy in a Ralph Lauren sweater and cowboy boots. My first...
...Bush back into office to pursue four more years of vanity, Constitution-shredding and a high-school-level understanding of geopolitics. It was then that I realized that presidential elections are more about biology than intellect. All Karl Rove had to do was present George W. Bush as the alpha dog and season with large doses of fear: pack mentality would certainly do the rest. James Spooner, Albuquerque...