Word: investors
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...what to do with its stock holdings in Citibank, which was making direct loans to the South African government. After Harvard decided to divest from Citibank, Radcliffe officials began to look more closely at their own portfolio, according to Elizabeth Heffernan '54, chairman of Radcliffe's Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility (ACIR...
...Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC), a Washington D.C.-based think tank, studied the history and development of the debate in the U.S., examining, among other things its impact on corporate bahavior. During the course of the study, IRRC interviewed representatives of nearly every major activist group several banks, a number of companies active in the Sullivan Principles effort and many state and national officials involved in the debate. The report, entitled Two Decades of Debate: The Controversy Over U.S. Companies in South Africa, was released earlier this year. Following is a summary of its conclusions on this issue...
...investors have flocked back, financial institutions have hurried to cash in by changing the way they do business and even the way they are organized. Brokerage houses, banks, insurance companies and even credit-card firms have gone into a kind of mating frenzy, merging left and right and creating new organizations with names like Shearson/American Express and Prudential-Bache. By offering a "supermarket" of financial services, these firms permit an investor to pick up stocks along with auto shocks at his local Sears, to write checks and sell shares through a Merrill Lynch Cash Management Account and to have...
...index by $500. A contract based on a Standard & Poor's index that stands at 160, for example, would be worth $80,000 ($500 times 160). To invest, a buyer would have to put down something less than 10% of that amount, or about $6,000. The investor would then stand to make or lose $500 on every point the index rose or fell. If it were to jump to, say, 165, the purchaser would have a profit of $2,500 ($500 times 5). If the index dropped to 155, he would lose $2,500. Trading in the contracts...
Whatever happens to interest rates will have an impact on Wall Street. The stock market's bull market of 1982 was set off when the Open Market Committee voted last August to ease Committee policy, and the market has been reacting nervously to rumors of higher rates. Investor fears that Fed tightening would boost interest levels caused the Dow Jones industrial average to drop 14.92 points last week, to close at 1192. The Reagan Adminstration, which fears that tight money could brake the recovery, has been making some clumsy attempts to influence the Federal Reserve's policy...