Word: dotcom
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...equities. [With hedge funds] we want to get some absolute income in." Yet even though the interest of big institutional funds has enhanced hedge funds' respectability, experts encourage investors to tread warily. The market has grown so quickly that some commentators are comparing the hedge-fund boom to the dotcom bubble. While the best funds do make lots of money, they generally require a long-term commitment from investors. And the lack of consistent and transparent strategies among various hedge funds doesn't help. Says Ian Morley, CEO of Dawnay, Day Olympia, a joint-venture asset management concern: "Hedge funds...
CONVICTED. FRANK QUATTRONE, 48, star investment banker who shepherded some of the hottest companies of the dotcom stock boom to the public market and made $120 million in 2000 at Credit Suisse First Boston; of obstructing justice and witness tampering; in New York City. His first trial last fall ended in a hung jury...
...CONVICTED. FRANK QUATTRONE, 48, star investment banker who shepherded some of the hottest companies of the dotcom stock boom to the public market and made $120 million in 2000 at Credit Suisse First Boston; of obstructing justice and witness tampering; in New York City. His first trial ended in a hung jury...
...turns out that ultra-powerful turbine behind our full-fledged recovery isn't some government works project or a tariff or even a job training program. Rather, it's a young company that does one thing: Searches the Web. How could that be? Haven't we learned our dotcom lesson? Aren't we too smart to fall victim once again to the breathless enthusiasm that seems to blow from the west like the Santa Anna winds...
...whether Google's IPO can on its own spark innovation or even inflate another bubble, anything is possible - that's probably the biggest moral of the dotcom story. But things have changed in the short period since the downturn. For one thing, companies are now accounting for stock options as expenses. Consequently, more and more corporations are abandoning a method of compensation that effectively let talented workers place big bets with their careers. Without stock options, we might not see the same level of frenzied startup activity prevalent during the late 1990s. The other big difference is that many...