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...asked on TV if opening 1,300 stores in the US in a single year was "too much too fast." "Not at all," the then-chairman said. "We have been a growth company for the last 20 years. And the hallmark of that growth has been our ability to invest ahead of the growth curve...
...lack of cooperation within the region has been a key impediment to more investment in North Africa, notes Carlo Altomonte, a professor of international economic policy at Milan's Bocconi University. "One of the main reasons of the trading success in Eastern Europe is that they integrated among themselves," he says. "If you invest in Tunisia, you get stuck in Tunisia. The North Africans are painfully slow to trust each other...
...money such campaigns generate comes with a huge responsibility to invest those funds cannily, and both universities are making suitable arrangements. Nick Cavalla, formerly an exec at Man Global Strategies - part of the Man Group, the world's largest publicly listed hedge fund - started work as Cambridge's first chief investment officer in April last year; Sandra Robertson, previously the boss of Portfolio Management at the Wellcome Trust, an influential U.K. medical charity, took up the equivalent role at Oxford five months later...
...determining a couple's chances of having a baby, but Yao and her team are attempting to streamline and standardize the process. Ultimately, she believes, the embryo screen will be able to help couples who have already undergone one unsuccessful cycle of IVF to decide whether or not to invest in additional attempts...
When it comes to investing, nothing is more important than the ability to think rationally for oneself - and Buffett is unsurpassed on this front. In the late '90s, he was criticized for his refusal to invest in booming tech and Internet stocks - a decision that was vindicated when the bubble burst. Buffett has made a fine art of keeping this kind of distracting noise at bay: he said he even limits his contact with managers of businesses in which he invests, preferring to assess their companies' financial records - a more neutral source of information. Equally vital to his success, Buffett...