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...publication, claimed that assets under management in hedge funds had surpassed $1 trillion. Another analysis firm puts the figure at more than $860 billion - up from $456 billion five years ago. To be sure, hedge funds still account for less than 1% of assets under management worldwide. But a Goldman Sachs?Russell Investment Group study released in 2003 forecast that the percentage of European institutions investing some part of their portfolio in hedge funds will rise from 21% in 2003 to 50% in 2005. What's the attraction? Huge returns. In 2003, hedge funds globally returned an estimated 13%, with...
...Bangalore and Hyderabad never reached the rural villages and urban slums where 80 percent of the population continues to live in grinding poverty. The rewards of globalization and India's emergence as a high-tech powerhouse have been enjoyed only by a tiny percentage of Indians. As a Goldman Sachs report recently noted, India is home to one third of the world's software engineers and one quarter of its undernourished population. And for the impoverished majority, the message of a "Shining India" rang hollow, at best, or worse, sounded like rich folks showing gloating over their prosperity...
...sangfroid, there is no guarantee that Troy will be a hit. Summer blockbusters have become the riskiest investment in the film business. In his book Hollywood Economics, economist Arthur De Vany analyzed 2,015 movies to determine what succeeds and what fails. The answer, best summarized by screenwriter William Goldman, is that "nobody knows anything." What De Vany did learn is that moviegoers behave according to the principles of Bose-Einstein condensation--a fancy way of saying they are more likely to go to a movie if they receive an "authentic signal" that other people have enjoyed it. Before...
...craned forward in a clownish jut; Burkle, who ingratiates himself to the audience with his deft comic timing; and Low, her brisk aunt perhaps too crisp but never unappealing. Technical direction is by Blase E. Ur ’07, the complex, transparent set is designed by Melissa E. Goldman ’06 and the deliberate lighting by Kelzie E. Beebe ’04. John T. Drake ’06 contributes a punchy sound design which includes a mix of innovative music cues, many of which conjure images of the dance-loving Hedda at a modern...
...these compulsive worriers—you’ve already envisioned your life as a soup kitchen patron. Everywhere you turn the walls are closing in on you as countless pink-pant wearing preppies delight in telling you about their “lucrative summer position” at Goldman or Stanley. But, if their impressive euphemisms for “internship” haven’t yet frightened you, just wait for it: rolling the “I” across their tongue, they drop the big one, I-banker. “Welcome to unemployment...