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Added Stimulant. Preferred shares of the fund, which would operate like a mutual fund, would then be sold through banks to any employed citizen who earned $500 to $7,800 a year. To buy the shares, investors could get government-backed loans, for which they would not be responsible in case of default. A total of 800,000 workers would be eligible to buy up to $10 million worth of $1 preferred shares issued the first year. As an added stimulant to the economy, the government would match the investor's purchase of preferred shares by buying...
...rise marks a complete flip-flop in investor psychology from mid-autumn, when prices were being steadily beaten down by a mixture of confusion about the President's economic-controls program and worry about the world monetary crisis. Then Phase II dawned without disaster, the dollar was devalued and the threat of a global trade war was dissipated. Now many market professionals expect a good year...
...spring. She argued that the real reason Morris had to quit was his erratic stewardship of the magazine, and not the financial interference he cited in his resignation statement. Though [MORE] sometimes misses the mark, its current issue contains a well-researched if slightly overstated article by the Institutional Investor's Chris Welles, condemning the New York Times for putting out "a business and financial section of astonishing mediocrity," which is dominated by "press releases, unembellished spot news and public relations trivia." Another article criticized the New York Daily News for altering Associated Press copy to delete negative testimony...
...hardheaded world of professional money managers, the rule for years was that the only wise investment was the one that turned a profit. An investor troubled by the idea of financing the military-industrial complex, pollution or racist hiring practices had to hunt up "clean" stocks on his own. Now, however, there is a new breed of mutual funds that caters to the customer with social scruples...
...assets). Except for the forthcoming Dreyfus Third Century Fund, all are "no load" funds sold without a sales charge. The generalities end there, since what seems a socially desirable investment to one portfolio manager may be an abomination to another. Among the funds that allow an investor to put his money where his conscience...