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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unlike Harvard seniors who enjoyed the 1980s boom in investment banking and consulting, many are applying this year to a wide-range of post-college opportunities ranging from fellowships to internships to time...

Author: By Nan Zheng, | Title: Seniors Begin to Wonder: Where To Go From Here? | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

What accounts for the western's resurgence? Industry watchers point to a general revival of interest in Western clothing and memorabilia, the boom in country music and the appeal of a rural life-style at a time when urban problems seem more oppressive than ever. The old-fashioned moral values of the frontier also seem especially inviting today. "In westerns," says CBS Entertainment chief Jeff Sagansky, "the bad guys are bad not because they were abused kids or temporarily insane. They are bad, and they meet their end. There's a catharsis the audience is allowed to feel that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back From Boot Hill | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

...their part, commercial banks have clearly found it profitable to participate in the fund boom. Roughly 125 large banks now offer their own branded funds, which are managed by outside investment firms. That trend has turned a little-known Pittsburgh firm called Federated Investors into the seventh largest fund group in the country. Federated has sold 80% of its $75 billion in assets through institutions under either its own name or the institution's brand. Either way, the banks typically take the lion's share of the sales fees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Siren Call of Mutual Funds | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

...robust as investments in mutual funds based in U.S. stocks have been, their growth seems anemic compared with the boom in overseas funds. On average, foreign mutuals have soared nearly 30% so far this year. A distinct scent of euphoria surrounds "emerging markets" in Asia and Latin America, as U.S. money cascades in and pushes them to new heights. As this speculative bandwagon gathers speed, more investors clamber aboard. Americans plowed a record $7 billion into overseas funds in 1992, plus $21.7 billion more in the first nine months of this year. It's hard to argue with double-digit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They're Hot in the U.S. But Even Hotter Abroad | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

...boom abroad may be quieting. "Of course it won't keep up," says Ralph Wanger, manager of the Acorn International Fund, up 35% to date. "Thirty percent returns are much higher than anybody has any reason to expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They're Hot in the U.S. But Even Hotter Abroad | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

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