Word: investor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tantamount to stealing the company." Vasella, however, believes that Novartis, with its deep pockets and tight quality controls, is ideally positioned to clean up Chiron's mess, expand capacity and exploit its trove of intellectual property. Says Vasella: "When you have 42% ownership, you can't be a passive investor...
Including Meyer, the top six managers earned $56.8 million in total, down from $78.4 million in fiscal 2004. Timber investor Andy Wiltshire was paid...
...size problem became evident in the '90s, investors began shifting to index funds, where good ideas don't matter. Index funds buy all stocks in a benchmark like the S&P 500 or any of hundreds of others. They guarantee market-matching returns, are hugely popular and make sense for most people. That makes the heady growth at American Funds all the more noteworthy: the company offers not a single index fund, dismissing them as vehicles for guaranteed mediocrity. "We think you can do better," says Jim Rothenberg, one of nine managers of Growth Fund of America. What's more...
...failed miserably” in supporting the nation’s civic infrastructure. “We have failed, especially in our cities,” he said. “We even see Congress—in the name of preserving tax breaks for the investor class—voting on a $50 billion package of cuts in child care, in food stamps, in medical coverage for the poor and the elderly, in student aid, cuts that will hit the very people whose eloquent pleas for help gripped the nation and moved us all.” He later...
...beginning, business didn't work out any better than politics. His initial venture, in energy, failed in six weeks; his second one, in real estate, took six months to fold. But in the early 1980s, Warner saw possibility in the far-out idea of cellular telephones and organized investor groups to apply for the free licenses then available. In return he got a stake in the new companies, one of which was Nextel. His friends, Warner recalls, thought he was crazy. Now he jokes, "Anytime you're around me, please don't turn off your cell phone. You hear...