Word: lipper
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...your funds, have been paying professionals for the privilege of earning subpar returns. That's only supposed to happen in baseball. Last year just 25% of stock funds matched the S&P 500. In 1995 the number was a pitiful 16%, and in 1994 it was 23%, according to Lipper Analytical Services. If fund managers simply threw darts at a stock table, you'd expect more to match the benchmark...
...suggest the gap is widening, indicating that something more than fees is the problem. Ironically, no one seems to pin it on the influx of thirtysomething fund managers hired as part of the industry's explosive growth. "In a bull market like this, youth is an asset," argues Michael Lipper, president of Lipper Analytical. The young have no recollection of, and thus no fear of, a declining market. That translates into being fully invested and having got the most out of stocks during this exceptional rally...
...asset value on country funds been so large, a reflection of investors' strong preference for U.S. stocks at the moment. But "if you can find a country you like, and a fund at a deep discount, you've got an enticing package," says analyst Donald Cassidy at Lipper Analytical Services. The accompanying chart shows 12 funds trading at discounts. There are no sure winners. But diversifying your stock holdings is always advisable. A good start is 20% in foreign markets, including 5% in emerging markets. Why wait? This may be your best chance to go abroad for a while...
Gibson was brought to Harvard by a joint effort of the Learning from Performers program and the Graduate School of Education's Arts in Education concentration. Law School alumnus and Hollywood screenwriter Ken Lipper was also involved with the arrangements for his visit
Because the story was written by Ken Lipper, a deputy mayor in the Koch administration, and snazzed up by a trio of old-pro screenwriters--Nicholas Pileggi, Paul Schrader, Bo Goldman--and because it was shot in Gotham's city hall with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's blessing, the movie has a burly verisimilitude. It drops the right names, purrs with silky threats. The ancient code of Mediterranean machismo operates here. You make deals partly to get things done and partly to make deals. It's what...