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...other cases, mostly among relatively small funds, erasing a name is an attempt at cost cutting. Many fund firms decide it makes no sense to pay two high-salaried managers and their staffs to maintain similar portfolios. Also, running a fund with modest assets is difficult, and with so many investors feeling burned by stocks, there's little prospect for asset growth anytime soon. That was the case at Putnam, where the $759 million Balanced Retirement Fund was merged into the $4.9 billion George Putnam Fund (another balanced portfolio) as one of 11 fund eliminations...
...that’s just the kind of kid Ryan Fitzpatrick is. He’s a family guy. A modest guy. A quietly confident guy. He’s unassuming, yet considered a goofball. Understated, yet a standout...
Swathed in smoke and murky lighting in the Avalon Ballroom on We. Nov. 13th, Les Claypool hunched over to sing into his distorted microphone. Though he resembles the Child-Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, complete with lank hair and bowler hat and a somewhat more modest nose, he is something of a visionary as well. After four decades of bite-sized, digestible songs of appropriate lengths and recognizable lyrics, there may be something of a crisis brewing in certain music circles. What is there left to do? One response is Sigur Ros’ experiments with wordlessness and nameless...
There was some doubt, though, if the team could afford the trip on its modest budget...
...spark a U.S. invasion. But Blix rejects any idea that the choice between war and peace is in his hands, preferring to see himself simply as a polite but firm detective out to do nothing more (or less) than establish the facts. TIME caught up with him in his modest UN office in New York on the eve of his departure...