Word: investors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...owner of a sports-medicine clinic in Mount Kisco, N.Y., and he is not talking theory. During the past several years, Beusman has dumped $300,000 worth of stock, more than 80% of his holdings. He is far from alone. Eleven months after last year's crash, most individual investors are avoiding stocks as if they were poison. Some Wall Street executives fear that many of these investors may be leaving the market for good, to the detriment of brokerage firms and future bull markets. Says Hardwick Simmons, vice chairman of Shearson Lehman Hutton: "The small investor is an endangered...
...competing corporate cultures within Moet Vuitton. He expressed fears aloud that the marketing of Cognac and champagne, some of which is sold through "mass distribution in supermarkets," would "contaminate" Vuitton's upper-crust image. To balance Chevalier's move toward Guinness, Racamier then made overtures to his own outside investor: Bernard Arnault, 39, whose group, Financiere Agache, controls the Christian Lacroix and Dior fashion houses. Following protracted negotiations, Agache and Guinness took a joint 24% stake in Moet Vuitton, with Agache holding the lion's share of the investment. Arnault, who is expected to sit on the Moet Vuitton management...
They allegedly used a technique called stock parking, in which an investor sells shares temporarily to someone else to hide their real ownership from Government agencies like the Internal Revenue Service. In this case, Princeton/Newport was allegedly parking stocks at Drexel so that the New Jersey firm could claim short-term tax losses on the sale. The laws against racketeering, which involves repeated crimes carried out by a person or a business, have traditionally been used against the Mafia. Bringing racketeering charges against stock swindlers is an aggressive new tactic in the war on white-collar crime...
Using its close ties to Japanese investors, Nomura serves as a central conduit for the trillions of yen pouring out of Japan in search of bigger, better returns. Last year, when Japan had a trade surplus of $96 billion, its net purchases of foreign securities amounted to $88 billion, up from $4 billion in 1980. The largest portion of that outflow used to go into U.S. Treasury securities, but increasingly the Japanese are buying foreign stocks and bonds. They are also acquiring overseas companies and real estate. And no matter what type of play a Japanese investor wants to make...
...index futures market is currently suffering from depressed volume, down some 50% on the Chicago Merc compared with May 1987, partly because several major New York investment firms have halted index-arbitrage for their own accounts. While the firms did so largely as a public relations move to calm investor fears, most of them continue to conduct program trading to satisfy customers whose money they manage. Says Max Chapman, president of Kidder, Peabody: "Speculation is not a dirty word...