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South African official policy "assumes that South Africa will continue to rely for an indefinite period on a net inflow of foreign exchange to supplement local sources of finance," said a report by the Investor Responsibility Research Center, (IRRG), a factfinding organization Harvard joined other universities and foundations in setting up last Fall. American investment, about 15 per cent of total foreign investment in the country, was close to $1 billion...
Farber is deeply involved in helping foundations and other universities to decide their positions on proxy resolutions. He created the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) this year to provide what Farber says will be "objective, timely, in-depth exposition of the facts and issues involved in public interest shareholder proposals...
...exodus of the individual investor has caused trading volume to shrivel to levels at which few brokers can make any money. Turnover on the New York Stock Exchange must run between 12 million and 17 million shares daily for most brokerages to break even; on two of the five trading days last week it slipped below the bottom end of that range. In the first two months of the year, the brokerage business as a whole suffered a loss of $51 million, v. a $250 million profit in the same period of 1972. Such big houses as Loeb, Rhoades...
...securities industry itself is stepping up efforts to woo the small investor back. The Amex, for example, is completing plans for its first nationwide ad campaign to sell individuals on the merits of buying stock. A turnaround in prices-which is not an unreasonable expectation if the economy continues to boom-would surely help such efforts. But because brokers have done such a thorough job of convincing the small investor that he is not wanted, they face a long campaign before they change his mind...
...Redeeming bonds and warrants that can be converted into common stock at an investor's option. If it did not buy up its own stock for that purpose, a company would have to issue new shares, thus diluting the equity of present shareholders...