Word: investors
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...real life, Smith is George Jerome Waldo (Jerry) Goodman, novelist and screenwriter (The Wheeler Dealers), former editor of the financial monthly the Institutional Investor, and a man who has enjoyed most of the good things as defined by most of the human race...
...UNITED STATES is the second largest foreign investor in South Africa, with Britain only slightly ahead. The rate of return on foreign capital invested in South Africa is 18.6 per cent, compared to a world average return of 11 per cent. Nearly every large American corporation has investments in South Africa, for the forced cheap labor insures a high profit rate, and the government has done its best to attract investment. Although most American countries pulled out of Namibia last year when it seemed likely that the U.N. would expropriate all exports from Namibia, the government in South Africa seems...
...report issued last week, the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC)--an organization Harvard helped found three years ago to do research for institutional investors--cites some of the kinds of management proposals to which many large banks object. The IRRC report says that over 80 per cent of the large banks surveyed this year voted against some management proposals. Although the report does not indicate the names of most of the banks (they requested anonymity), the 1974 IRRC annual report lists most of the major New York banks--Chase Manhattan, First National City Bank, Morgan Guaranty Trust, etc.--and large...
...case of management proposals that affect the rights and opportunities of shareholders, the financial connection is clear. By routinely giving approval to even questionable proposals made by managements, Harvard may actually be foregoing financial gains--which are the major goals of any investor...
...small investor has not profited at all from the price war. In fact, some brokerage houses have set a new $25 minimum fee per trade, and most have raised charges to private investors 2% to 8%. There are some signs, however, that the fee trimming ultimately may spread to individual investors. Last week the small Wall Street house of Quick & Reilly, Inc. began cutting commissions as much as 40% (though it still charges a $25 minimum), and some other brokerages are offering complicated discounts on the second step of two-stage buy-and-sell deals. Hence the individual investor...