Word: icing
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...hedge-fund managers going to react as their mutual-fund peers did 40 years ago, taking bigger and dumber risks in a continuing quest to justify their paychecks? Or are they going to slide calmly into respectability and mediocrity? Will the hedge-fund boom end in fire or in ice...
Even this, the ice scenario, is bad news for the many pension funds that are only now plunging into hedge funds. Top hedge funds are often closed to new investors, meaning that newcomers are apt to get worse-than-mediocre performance while still paying 1% or 2% of assets and 20% of the profits to the managers. There is a cheaper alternative: just as Vanguard launched the first stock-index mutual fund in 1976, Wall Street firms are beginning to offer low-cost funds that mimic common hedge-fund strategies. The first get-together of this nascent "hedge-fund replication...
Aware that fencing such glittering, easily identifiable ice would be difficult, the insurance company that had covered the jewels offered a $300,000 no-questions-asked reward for their return. For eight months nobody responded to the notices in Le Figaro. Then French police were told that an intermediary was trying to make contact with the insurance firm...
...league, we did just play the one, two, and three teams,” captain Dylan Reese said. “In my mind, we outplayed two of the teams evenly and were semi-even with the other team.”Harvard will return to the ice against Union this Friday night at the Bright Hockey Center.HARVARD 2, QUINNIPIAC 2A hard-fought tie sounds oxymoronic, but the Crimson will take it given that Harvard rallied from a 2-0 deficit against the Bobcats.The Crimson surrendered a power-play goal in the first period, and the Bobcats added a second...
That makes sense to Harsch, who sells real estate when she's not skiing: "It may have taken it a long time to figure it out, but I think the ski industry knows that if women go out on the hill and don't like it, they'll go ice skating or go to the beach or find something else...