Word: investors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...studios the right to show films from the Paramount library at a profit that it reported as $22 million. Briloff thinks that profit is misleading, because Gulf & Western showed on its books only part of what it had paid for Paramount's assets, including the film library. An investor who remembered the market value of the stock that G. & W. had issued could have made some different profit computations for himself, but few shareholders have the expertise...
...become the nation's biggest broker largely by wooing small accounts, is unenthusiastic about the stock exchange plan. Says the firm's Board Chairman James Thomson: "We would support a moderate increase in rates provided that it is not solely at the expense of the small investor." Thomson believes, as do officials of other well-managed firms, that Wall Street's trouble is primarily the result of inefficiency in some brokerage operations-and not inadequate commissions. William Donaldson, president of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, is sharply critical of the discriminatory way in which commissions would be changed...
...sure that higher commission income would really be used to alleviate the snarl of paper and general disorder in the back offices of many brokerage houses. There is a feeling in the SEC that brokerage houses in recent years have advertised for business from small investors without gearing up to handle them. The regulators question whether the small investor should subsidize such inefficiency in a fixed-price industry. The situation is bound to make small investors wonder whether the Justice Department may not be right in arguing that fixed commission rates ought to be eliminated...
...empire based on the exchange of ideas. In 1967 he thought that the influential men who run investing institutions-mutual funds, pension funds, trusts-should have a magazine written specifically for them. With modest bankrolling from Gerald Bronfman (of the liquor family), relatives and friends, he launched The Institutional Investor. "The Double Eye," as I.I.. is dubbed, is now an ad-packed monthly that is sent free to 20,000 portfolio managers and big brokers. The magazine quickly became the foundation for a company, Institutional Investor Systems, that today also publishes Corporate Financing (six issues a year), three business...
Such a business could be staid. But Kaplan has taken aim at a growing audience-basically the younger, more aggressive, often fun-loving money managers. They appreciate pizazz as well as ideas. He gives them both. The Institutional Investor, for example, goes in for Pop art; one cover, on the New York Stock Exchange specialist system, showed a cavalry and Indians scene. The magazine is edited by George J. W. Goodman, the "Adam Smith" who wrote The Money Game, and writers can fairly easily earn $30,000 a year in salary, bonus and profits on stock options...