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Dates: during 1962-1962
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Seeking Humor. I.O.S. offers a choice of 80 mutual funds. But the U.S.'s high-rated Dreyfus Fund, whose President Jack Dreyfus let Cornfeld handle his fund abroad to start I.O.S., accounts for 75% of sales. Last week I.O.S. launched a fund of its own, the so-called Fund of Funds, consisting of shares from half a dozen mutuals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Securities: The Profitable Piece Corps | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

Living high in Switzerland, Bachelor Cornfeld is hugely satisfied with his worldwide success. Meeting a former social-work classmate recently, Cornfeld was asked what kind of agency he had gone into. Said he: "A preventive agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Securities: The Profitable Piece Corps | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

...Cornfeld conceived what he calls his "piece corps" (for piece of industry) during a 1955 Paris vacation. Discovering that 3,500,000 Americans lived overseas, he set out to sell them, using a battered Chrysler convertible as a mobile office and concentrating at first on the G.I. trade. Flourishing, he moved to offices in Geneva, advertised in the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune for salesmen "with a sense of humor." Among those who hired on were a musician, a veterinarian, a helicopter pilot and an economics student. New salesmen are introduced to the business in five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Securities: The Profitable Piece Corps | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

Branching Out. Today 70% of Cornfeld's customers are non-Americans. And business is no longer confined to mutuals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Securities: The Profitable Piece Corps | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

...newborn subsidiary is International Life Insurance Co. ; Cornfeld's agents will push policies as well as funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Securities: The Profitable Piece Corps | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

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