Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...professional to manage your money when you can do just as good a job, if not better, on your own? That was the question Hillsboro, Ore., computer consultant Larry Taylor, 40, and his friends asked themselves three years ago. Sick of sitting on the sidelines of a raging bull market, watching individual stocks skyrocket as their mutual funds crawled along, Taylor's crew decided to take matters into their own hands. Pooling assets, they chose a diversified portfolio of tech, pharmaceutical and manufacturing stocks and have enjoyed 30% annual returns ever since. "We got tired of seeing fund managers getting...
...Financial Research Corp. "There's a lot more risk now," says Jack Brennan, chairman of fund giant Vanguard, based in Valley Forge, Pa. "People may be looking for bigger, more seasoned names with a broader array of products. Or the investor may be making a bit of a market call, taking some risk off the table...
Lewis is quick to point out that tuition is not market-driven in the sense that Harvard does not charge the maximum it feels people will pay for a Harvard diploma...
...charged what the market would bear, I'm sure the Harvard tuition would be a great deal higher than it is!" Lewis wrote in an e-mail message...
While Thomas H. Wright, vice president and secretary of Princeton, acknowledges that market pressures do play a role, the competition between the Ivy League colleges is not as relevant as one might think, he says...