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...issue on which the Corporation has spent perhaps the most time in the last 12 years is that of investor responsibility. Through the four-member Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), chaired by retiring 16-year Corporation veteran Hugh Calkins '45, the board has grappled with the issue of how to handle investments in companies which do some business in South Africa...
Wall Street has been abuzz for the past month with rumors that a mysterious investor was acquiring a major stake in Unocal (1984 sales: $11.5 billion) and might launch a takeover battle for the 14th largest U.S. oil company. Last week the great accumulator stepped forward. Texas Oilman T. Boone Pickens Jr. said that he and a group of partners have spent $584 million to acquire 13.8 million Unocal shares, or 7.9% of the company's stock...
...Transportation Department received 15 bids for Conrail and last September narrowed the candidates to three: Norfolk Southern, the Alleghany Corp. of New York City and an investor group led by Hotelier J. Willard Marriott Jr. Two weeks ago, all 19 of Conrail's unions voted to recommend the Alleghany bid because the firm promised a more lucrative wage- and-job-protection package...
First, Harvard as an investor opposes apartheid through its activities in the management of its securities and other investments. For reasons clearly stated on many occasions, the University does not believe in divesting its shares in all American companies doing business in South Africa. But Harvard neither owns nor will own any shares in companies doing the majority of their business in South Africa, nor will it hold any debt securities in banks that loan to the South African government. On two occasions Harvard has divested such debt securities. Harvard will also vote its shares and seek other means...
Another sign of the growing boldness of individual market players is their enthusiasm for index options. In an option deal, an investor gets the right to buy or sell a contract representing a group of stocks that make up one of the market indexes--for example, the New York Stock Exchange composite--at a fixed price at some future date. What it amounts to is a legal bet on which way the market index is headed. If investors guess right, they can cash in their options at a profit. About 95% of the investors in N.Y.S.E. composite index options...