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John V. Lintner Jr., Gand Professor of Economics and Business Administration. died on June 8. in an automobile accident in Cambridge. Lintner, who was 67, was widely known in the financial and academic communities for his major contribution to the capital asset pricing model, a method of estimating the future value of an investment...
What Fish says has been Sand's greatest asset has been his desire to win. "He applied himself and dedicated himself more than anyone I've ever coached," Fish says...
...television and radio stations are being acquired by Rockefeller Center Inc., a private company that manages about two-thirds of the family's wealth. Its biggest single asset is Rockefeller Center, the eight-block, 17-building office complex in New York City that celebrated its 50th anniversary last year. While the center reportedly generates revenues of $500 million a year, its 1981 profit was only $20 million. The Rockefellers have tried several schemes to wring more cash out of the complex and last year had even arranged to sell an interest in the center, but the deal fell through...
Besides being the biggest of the 30-odd mutual funds concentrating on science and technology stocks, Sci/Tech boasts a prestigious international management team. Under Merrill Lynch's direction, assets in Japan and the Pacific Basin will be managed by Nomura Capital Management, Inc., an affiliate of Japan's largest securities firm, Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. West European investments will be handled by Lombard Odier International Portfolio Management Ltd., a London-based subsidiary of one of Switzerland's oldest and largest private banks. Merrill Lynch Asset Management, already the biggest U.S. manager of mutual funds, will handle Sci/Tech...
Advising Sci/Tech's investment specialists will be a council of scientists and other experts in fields ranging from biology to aeronautical engineering. Harry Woolf, who will head the council, is director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. Says Arthur Zeikel, president of Merrill Lynch Asset Management as well as Sci/Tech: "Our international scope, professional management and scientific advisory council will put Sci/Tech on the cutting edge of the rapid changes in science and technology around the globe...