Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Company Institute. But that's down slightly from last April, and this year income tax refunds were at record levels. And thanks to a 2% across-the-board drop on Wall Street during the month, May is looking like a loser, with just $10 billion flowing in, according to market tracker Trim Tabs...
...thinness of the market--most of the past year's gains can be traced to relatively few stocks--has been tailor-made for the e-trade crowd, who pile into favored stocks at light-speed. It's been a hot-money, risky environment, and these investors have apparently lost respect for the traditional, research-oriented investing that the pros have to offer...
...blame them, considering the sorry record of most fund managers? With less than 20% of active managers outperforming the market, it is understandable that last year, for the first time ever, asset growth in individual stocks outpaced that of funds at discount broker and fund supermarket Charles Schwab. Or that No. 1 Fidelity has been stepping up promotion of its brokerage services, as more customers have looked to open hybrid portfolios made up of stocks and funds. "This industry has grown so rapidly that there is a shortage of good managers," says Bridget Macaskill, CEO of Oppenheimer Funds. "But mutual...
...fund industry is praying that the online trading boom and focus on just a few stocks (America Online, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, Cisco) is a short-term phenomenon, the sign of a cyclical market that has got out of hand, rather than a fundamental, long-term shift. "It's based on a false sense of empowerment," claims funds watcher Avi Nachmany of Strategic Insight. Once the narrow bull market calms down, or broadens to include harder-to-choose value and small-cap stocks (as it appears to have done of late), Nachmany and others argue, investors will rush back...
...half the 600 fund companies could disappear, as outfits with less than $50 billion in assets become ripe for the picking. With the big boys dominating the highly profitable institutional side of the business--401(k)s and other retirement plans--and much of the growth now coming from market appreciation, it will be hard for a second-tier player to shine...