Word: investors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Many investors and the money market funds are naturally fearful of any moves to limit these high-paying deposits. Says David Jensen, a Chicago lawyer who is moving his savings out of certificates of deposit and into a money market fund: "Restrictions on them would interfere with my free-enterprise right to get the best rate of interest." Adds Thomas Anderson, vice president of the Kemper Money Market Fund: "We have allowed the small saver to participate in the high yields that have long been available to only the large investor." Restrictions on the funds would be against the general...
...corporations which are up to no good in South Africa, and even abstains on some of the shareholder resolutions it claims can accomplish so much. And it washes its hands of the tainted Citibank bonds on the sly--not because it hopes to influence Citibank management or other investors, but because supporting apartheid is immoral. Yes, it is immoral. But pretending that Harvard can do nothing about it--not even trying to do anything about it--is in my mind even worse. Who can seriously doubt that a letter from Derek Bok about Citibank loans to the South African government...
Both the general public and big Institutional Investors have been active in the market, but large pension funds, insurance companies and mutual funds have been major buyers of the bigger issues. It is harder for the small investor to get ahold of the most exciting stocks because brokers usually give the first shot to their larger clients who will buy 5,000 to 10,000 shares at a time. Federal regulations in 1979 encouraged pension funds to invest part of their huge assets in riskier ventures like new issues, antiques and diamonds; and institutions have soaked up about...
...major banks now routinely assess the credit risks of countries. The Institutional Investor, a U.S. monthly for moneymen, regularly publishes a summary of the ratings cited by world bankers. As the most creditworthy nation, the U.S. is ranked first among the 98 countries listed in the latest survey, while Poland is rated 71st and Zaire is at the bottom. The Soviet Union ranked 27th and Brazil 50th...
...questions that might arise regarding the University's position as an investor in firms taking part in genetic research and development...