Word: investors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cannot describe Levanter with the mundane occupational lables that fit most people because tasks do not inform Levanter's existence. Instead, he becomes involved in "situations." Kosinski calls him an "investor," but this is not meant in the Wall Street sense. Levanter invests in himself and others. He invests in the relationsips he forms, "the only meaningful form of shareholding in life," according to Kosinski...
...will come abruptly to an end. Real estate, agriculture, tobacco, mining, even tourism-all should experience a quick revival. Companies from Stuttgart to Nagasaki have been sending semisecret scouting missions to Salisbury. "Zimbabwe is going to be the biggest boom country you've ever seen," burbles one enthusiastic investor. "The nationalists seem to feel it too. They don't want to drive the white man out. They just want to be part of the action...
...Carter package now stands, capital losses could be deducted in full from ordinary income, with one exception: only $10,000 of net losses on marketable securities (primarily stocks and bonds) could be deducted from ordinary income in one year. Assume, for example, that an investor sold some stocks at a loss of $50,000 but realized a profit of $20,000 selling other shares, producing a net loss of $30,000. He could deduct $10,000 from his taxable wage-and-salary income that year; the remaining $20,-000 could be deducted in future years...
Arbitrage until a few weeks ago was only a somewhat mysterious word to the average investor. Then it became known that a handful of Wall Street arbitragers who like to speculate on corporate takeovers were the big winners in a bidding war for Babcock & Wilcox Co. (TIME, Sept. 5). As soon as United Technologies Corp. made an opening tender offer, the arbitragers began sinking $100 million-much of it borrowed-into purchases of B & W stock, starting at $42 a share; they quickly bought up more than a quarter of the outstanding shares. Then they sat back happily while United...
...Result: investor psychology these days is dominated by an urge to avoid risk. One striking illustration is the current practice of pension fund managers. In the 1960s performance was their watchword. They sought aggressively to buy stocks that would rise faster than the market averages-but in the '70s many of those shares have fallen as rapidly as they once shot up. So today many fund managers try to spread their investments about equally among the stocks included in popular averages. In other words, their aim is the modest one of doing no worse than the averages...