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...site's content and personalities. There's also the $15 billion that companies spend annually on local Yellow Page ads nationally to motivate their efforts. "Most local businesses--whether veterinarians, massage parlors, spas or restaurants--aren't buying Google key-words," says Peter Fenton, a partner at Benchmark Capital, which this month sank $10 million into Yelp...
...performance isn't what quant shops are about--at all. Quants are coolly confident that managers who hit it big one year are likely to stumble the next, so their goal is simply to beat a benchmark index (say, the S&P 500 or the Russell 1000) by a few percentage points a year. "We're about hitting lots of singles," says Ronald Kahn, who runs advanced equity strategies at Barclays Global Investors. The Casey, Quirk survey found that quants take about half as much risk as nonquants. Over time, that habit of not losing as much money in down...
...lock up your money at a fixed rate of return for a period of months. Money funds have similar rates of return without locking up your cash, and with a money fund, you are certain to get higher rates if the Fed persists in boosting its benchmark federal funds rate...
...Indian investor. "The terrorists were trying to attack the financial backbone of India, but it did not work." Indeed, in the aftermath of the bombs, Bombay's people showed resilience and bravery?just as those in Madrid, London and New York did in similar circumstances. The Sensex, India's benchmark stock index, rose 3% the day after the attacks. But for all the Mumbaiker spirit, the bombs showed that economic growth does not inoculate a society from those who want to use a bomb to make their political point...
...Kranefuss vividly remembers the nerve-racking launch of his exchange-traded fund IWM six years ago. As a top exec of Barclays Global Investors, Kranefuss held out big hopes for IWM, which tracks the benchmark index of small U.S. companies known as the Russell 2000. "I thought it could come out of the gate with huge trading volume, and it didn't," he says. Indeed, the fund languished for nearly four tortuous years...