Word: investors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale University officials have announced that a $2,500,000 donation from John Hay Whitney, a New York investor, will now permit the school to occupy the site of a projected eleventh upperclass college...
...gave up his U.S. citizenship in the 1930s, then returned home hurriedly from Liechtenstein just two jumps ahead of Hitler, was keeping his own counsel. One of the departing directors, demanding anonymity, told reporters: "We figured we'd get out while the getting was good." Only Wall Street Investor (Goldman, Sachs) Sidney J. Weinberg, 63, a dollar-a-year man in Washington during World War II, spoke out. Norris and his friends, he said, had arbitrarily cut down the size of the Garden's executive committee from eight to three, making it clear that he wants a free...
Part of this may well be the result of a significant change in the way the small investor buys. Instead of relying solely on his own judgment and buying individual stocks, he is turning more and more to buying shares in investment trusts and through the Stock Exchange's Monthly Investment Plan. As a result, the number of shareholder accounts in investment trusts, which totaled 1,222,218 at the end of 1950, increased to 1,911,493 by the end of 1954. Meanwhile, the number of stock buyers under M.I.P. has grown to 30,000 in a year...
Furthermore, brokers now advise a potential small investor not to buy stocks he cannot afford. Thus, the small investor enters the market with a greater degree of financial stability...
...short, all of the evidence seems to be that the small investor fares as well as the big investor in the market. Although there was a time when the small investor was more inclined to buy for the short term, thus taking a bigger risk of misjudging the market and losing money, now he is usually in for the long pull. Since the long-term trend of the market has been steadily up, he has probably made more money than he has lost...