Word: investors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investor-owned part of the hospital industry had 1982 revenues of $11.2 billion and profits of some $520 million. In the past five years, the earnings of the five largest hospital companies (Hospital Corporation of America, Humana, American Medical International, National Medical Enterprises and Lifemark) increased at an annual rate of 30% to 50%. Last year Standard & Poor's index of stock prices for hospital management companies zoomed 68%, making the otherwise healthy 14.8% rise in the S & P index of 500 industrials look anemic by comparison...
...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 rank, studied the history and development of the debate in the U.S. examining, among other things its impact on corporate behavior. 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...
...money-market funds and now has more cash on deposit in those accounts ($38 billion) than Bank of America, the largest U.S. bank, has in domestic passbook and checking accounts. Since 1977, when Merrill Lynch devised its Cash Management Account (annual fee: $50), which lumps together all of an investor's holdings, the firm's 9,000 salesmen have signed up 900,000 customers...
Stocks recommended by Value Line have established an astounding record of outperforming the market. An investor who bought the 100 top-ranked stocks each year since 1965 and held them for twelve months would have scored a gain of more than 1,300%. The Dow Jones industrial average, by contrast, has risen less than 30% during the same stretch...