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...sentiment." But that's dependent upon factors such as an easing of China's inflation rate, not on China's success in track and field events. "It is a mistake to try to tie China's stock-market performance to the Olympics," says Donald Straszheim, chairman of the research firm Straszheim Global Advisors. So a few years from now, when punters are urging you to buy shares in the U.K. simply because London will be hosting the 2012 Summer Games, remind them what happened the last time investors tried to bet on gold, silver and bronze. The Olympics effect...
...everyone agreed. As Ricard buttered his toast, the markets battered his firm for paying $8.34 billion for Absolut's parent company, Vin & Sprit--which was almost 21 times the Swedish firm's gross operating profit last year. As if to suggest that Pernod Ricard had overreached, Bruce Carbonari, CEO of Fortune Brands (which was trumped in the Absolut auction), claimed that the price for V&S would not provide an "appropriate return" for shareholders. Yet le patron remained unperturbed. Three years ago, the company leveraged itself heavily to acquire Britain's Allied Domecq, a $13 billion deal that doubled Pernod...
...good times and bad is ever the best policy. Trying to time the stock market is especially futile. In the 20 years through 2006, the Standard & Poor's 500 returned an average annual 11.8%, but the typical stock-fund investor earned only 4.3%, according to a study by research firm Dalbar. Fund fees play a role in that gap. But investors' errant attempts to move in and out of stocks at lows and highs are mostly to blame...
...track.STICKING IT TO THE MANTo the delight of its administrators, HLS has actually seen an increase in the number of students who choose to pursue public service in recent years. But it is still nowhere near the majority of graduates, most of whom still take jobs at corporate firms.“The majority of the numbers of [HLS] graduates go into corporate work and always have,” says Joan E. Ruttenberg, director of the Heyman Fellowship Program (HFP). On the other hand, she adds, “the number of HLS grads going into public...
...idea for Intern Memo originated when Theodore and William were still undergraduates, toiling away as summer interns themselves. While working at Bear Stearns and a small Manhattan money management firm during his college summers, Theodore recorded all his memorable experiences in the office. Seeing potential in both Theodore’s observations and William’s own experiences, the two brothers arrived at the idea of creating a newsletter—and thus Intern Memo was born...