Word: investments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Career Forum, we host employers who are willing to invest staff time to visit Harvard to recruit students for full-time and summer jobs. This year, 16 different industries were represented...
...Prudential, Salomon Brothers and the old Drexel Burnham Lambert. Getting hoodwinkers to bankroll a program to train investors to avoid being hoodwinked has a nice symmetry to it. Levitt, meanwhile, is taking consumer education to the national level. The sec has recently published a useful pamphlet, Invest Wisely, that demystifies the mutual fund, but Levitt's real goal is to get the mutual funds to demystify themselves...
...Levitt succeeds, we'll soon see the day when investors know as much about how to invest their life's savings as they do about how to buy toaster ovens and tires. But good writing alone won't solve the biggest confusion with mutual funds: there are too many of them. At current count we've got twice as many funds as there are stocks on the New York Stock Exchange. Getting rid of a few thousand would be a big help...
...almost came away with $2.9 million after offering illegal second mortgages in an attempt to convince buyers to invest in his failing condominium project...
Well, that's capitalism's problem. I have problems of my own. Like which financial-service company's wraparound account should I sign up for? Clearly, what's needed is a "product" that will invest your money in different wraparound accounts. That would be worth another percent or so off the top, wouldn...