Word: investors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard was able to issue double-tax free bonds, meaning no local or Massachusetts state taxes had to be paid on them, Teft says. Taxes are paid by the buyers, not the University, so no-tax bonds are a definite draw for the wily--or even not-so-wily--investor...
...time they take over, of course, Miami may be well established as a hemispheric power thanks to the latest arrivals: the Europeans. The Norwegians have built a $1 billion stake in southern Florida, primarily in Miami's booming cruise business. The British are the second biggest investors from the Continent. Barclay's Bank regularly finances Washington's grain deals with Russia, not from New York but from Miami. The Germans are snapping up waterfront property along the beach and Biscayne Bay. The mysterious Munich investor Thomas Kramer even has visions of building something between a modern-day Manhattan...
...trick for investors is to separate the best from the pests. A study by the Jefferson Group tracking the 3,186 companies that went public during the 1980s found that investors had only a 1-in-3 chance of making money in IPOs. While the stock prices rose for a third of the firms, they fell for a quarter of them. About 42% of the concerns failed or merged by the end of the decade. In a four-year study of about 900 initial public offerings, Cornell University finance professor Roni Michaely discovered that IPOs generally outperform the rest...
...committees are responsible for assisting the University "in addressing its ethical responsibilities as a large institutional investor," according to the report...
...Christopher Gentile of Abrams/Gentile Entertainment, which is developing a home-VR system in Princeton, New Jersey, predicts virtual game shows by 1996. How about 3-D TV? Shopping by VR? The Home Sex Network? "If someone gets there in the home with the right quality and cost," notes media investor Marty Pompadour, "it's a potential bonanza...