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...Bernard Cohen ’37, a Harvard professor who founded the Department of the History and Science in 1966, died June 20 at his home in Waltham, Mass...
...jerseys are showing up on celebrities and regular folks alike--yet another sport has been added to the mix: women's roller-derby uniforms. Until now, "nobody has done a true vintage-sports line for women actually based on garments that were historically worn," says Jerry Cohen, co-owner of Stall and Dean, which launched the roller-derby line. "We have sold out of our first production run." The body-hugging tops and shorts represent four teams from the 1950s to the '70s: the O'Reily Renegades, the New York Bombers, the Latin Liberators and the Kansas City Bombers...
...question then is, How do you spot a hot young fund before it's obvious--and the money pours in? You should ignore one-or two-year returns and focus on what stocks a fund holds at any given moment, according to Randolph Cohen, finance professor at Harvard Business School; Joshua Coval, finance professor at Harvard; and Lubos Pastor, finance professor at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. If the stocks that a young fund holds are largely the same as those held by funds with proven success, it follows that the manager of the young fund thinks...
Unfortunately, the exhaustive data needed to determine which young funds have the most promise are out of reach for most investors. So I asked Cohen to rerun his study and highlight the best young funds now. His list is on this page. The funds have done relatively well, but that isn't why they pop up on Cohen's screen. He compared funds begun since 2001 with the best and worst long-term performers in their categories. The most promising of these young funds are those with the highest percentage of stocks in common with the long-term winners...
...Cohen hopes that research firms like Morningstar and Thomson Financial will one day incorporate his method into their rating systems. In the meantime, you can approximate his research by focusing on the top 25 holdings. That fund information is available at morningstar.com Compare a young fund's top holdings with those of good and bad older funds in the same category. You want a lot of hits with the good funds and few with the bad ones--unless you're feeling lucky...