Word: investors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this has risks of its own. Do you really want the banks running high-tech experiments with your money? One of the ideas behind these new superbanks is that with large customer bases they will be able to offer infinitely complex (and incredibly efficient) wealth accounts to the average investor. But taking complex finance out of the hands of Wall Street rocket scientists and putting it into the hands of consumers or even inexperienced bankers is hardly a riskless activity. "Banks have been making less and less money from traditional lines of business," says Douglas Gale, an economics professor...
...hope it won't take another presidential trip to create an impetus for a positive focus on other revived regions such as Africa. If your story inspired one African youth to run for elected office or encouraged one foreign investor to consider Africa seriously, then it did a great service to a continent almost forgotten in this postcolonial world. DYLAN BORG Melbourne...
...arenas Microsoft is stomping into these days, none looks more enticing than financial services, a $1 trillion-plus industry built on just the sort of slick software at which Bill Gates & Co., um, excel. Led by its financial-management title, Microsoft Money and its brilliantly realized investment Website, Microsoft Investor investor.msn.com) the company has more than made its mark in home-financial software. But consumer-side successes are just the tip of the Microsoft iceberg, and industry watchers wonder whether giants like Chase and Citi might yet turn into Titanics...
...well as the Republican Senator from Delaware, William Roth. Before him, Carter Glass and Henry Steagall did all right with their Depression-era banking laws. And Eugene Keogh has a legacy with the self-employed. But the Roth IRA is in a class of its own: the most hyped investor doodad for Everyman since mutual funds. Merrill Lynch says the Roth IRA is its most visible product, hands down. Run against Roth at home, and unless your name is 401(k), you don't have a shot...
...life of an expatriate multinational employee was frustrating for Yan: China's economic prospects were growing so scintillating. He got in touch with a friend who was managing money for the Ziff publishing family and another who knew Texas-based investor Richard Rainwater. With these contacts, Yan attracted $52.5 million for a venture-capital fund targeting new businesses in China...