Word: investors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time leveraged buyout is one of the cleverest financial gimmicks of all time. An investor group, which often includes some of the target company's top managers, borrows billions to take the firm private by buying its stock from the shareholders. The company's own assets are used as security for the financing. After the deal is completed, the new owners usually try to bring their debt down to a manageable level -- and pick up enormous profits along the way -- by selling off parts of the company piecemeal. In the case of RJR Nabisco, the total market value of popular...
...outward calm is deceptive. The individual investor has been driven away, and a sense of unease is still felt. People are right to feel uneasy: practically nothing has been done to prevent a recurrence of October...
...proliferation of speculative financial instruments is tied to the new role of institutional investors. In fact, the term institutional investor is becoming a contradiction in terms. Too many institutions no longer invest. Instead they speculate -- in every type of financial vehicle from options to junk bonds, from real estate to foreign exchange. They are active players in the takeover game, encouraging corporations either to sell out or to engage in highly leveraged restructurings essentially aimed at maximizing short-term trading profits. But while the managers of institutional funds engage in this speculation, the money is not theirs. They are risking...
Bangkok alone is breaking world records with its facilities. One of its 17 five-star hotels, the Oriental, is acclaimed by Institutional Investor as the finest in the world; one of its more than 11,000 restaurants is registered in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest in the world; and one of its 63 discos is among the world's three biggest. Here, in fact, is a travel agent's dream: first-class services at Third World prices, exoticism crossed with elegance. With the Thai baht tied to the declining dollar, Thailand has come to mean...
...statistical features have been added. Journal executives concede that the changes are being made "for competitive reasons." In the wake of last year's stock-market crash, advertising is down nearly 12%, and circulation has slipped 5%. Meanwhile, competitors like the New York Times, USA Today and Investor's Daily are chipping away at the Journal's market...