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...flying as they are now, even discerning managers blindly plow money into the big stocks that make up major indexes. They want to hold little cash so it doesn't drag down performance. But the cash comes into their funds so fast that they can't find enough lesser-known stocks to spend it on. So they park ever more money in big stocks, which are easy to buy and sell, while searching for true bargains...
That behavior tends to drive up the indexes and leaves fund managers reluctant to sell their big stocks, which are rising. The end result is that large stocks take off, and the lesser-known stocks in most funds--the ones being counted on to provide the most kick and produce superior results-- instead hold the funds down...
...also worried that any partial privatization of Social Security might give the average Jill the heretical idea that those fica deductions from her paycheck belong to her and that she should control how all that money gets invested. This would, they said, undermine support for Social Security's lesser-known role as a safety net for the working poor and disabled. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the New York Democrat, predicted that the safety-net part of the program would suffer the fate of welfare. "Support for the redistributive aspects of Social Security would quickly erode," he said...
...success of many club teams seems even more amazing in light of the well-supported and sometimes varsity-level programs they face from other schools. Harvard prides itself on offering a wide variety of sports, but Crimson teams often face squads whose schools have chosen to dominate lesser-known sports...
Though long-time Cantabrigians may tire of the traditional Harvard Square hangouts, they do have the option of escaping to lesser-known spots...