Word: lipper
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Indeed it appears that what it means to grow up fast is to be ignored by mainstream American society if one is a teen mother. According to filmmaker Joanna Lipper ’93, “the body of a pregnant teenager represents an unequivocal reality that conveys issues on economic and social levels that people would rather not confront...
...screening was accompanied by a panel discussion of Lipper’s new book Growing Up Fast, which expands on the themes of the film. Lipper, a former Lowell House resident and Signet member, documented the lives of six teenagers as they became mothers for the first and sometimes second time in her documentary film Inside Out. Growing Up Fast is the literary documentation of the next three and a half years of those girls and their community members’ lives...
...enthusiasm isn't just local: a lot of the interest is coming from Europe. More than half of the 89 Chinese stock funds easily available to European investors rose by at least 50% last year, and 19 were up more than 75%, according to the fund rating company Lipper. While nobody tracks how much new European money is flowing into these funds, all of them report strong demand. Now that investors are back, Chinese companies are rushing to raise cash. This year will bring a bevy of highly anticipated IPOs, including Ping An Insurance, one of China's largest insurers...
Cutler also said that more than 30% of the funds surveyed appeared to have disclosed details about their holdings only to select investors, who could have traded on that information. "It's insider trading. It's totally illegal," says Kathryn Barland, a senior research analyst at Lipper and a former SEC enforcement officer. "I suspect it's very common...
...assets perform better, since managers can quickly buy and sell securities. Others say large funds, which have more resources for research and lower expense ratios, are best. Well, here's a conversation stopper: size doesn't matter. A new study by Andrew Clark, senior research analyst at fund tracker Lipper, finds that while small U.S. stock funds sometimes outperform large ones (and vice versa), the bursts of superior returns last only for short periods, then disappear and often aren't statistically relevant--that is, they could happen by chance. So you still need to evaluate a fund by risk-adjusted...