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More and more people have stopped trying to figure out today's erratic securities markets and have turned their investments over to professional managers of money. No institution manages more "O.P.M.," or Other People's Money, than Manhattan's 116-year-old United States Trust Co., one of whose few advertising themes is "Planned silence is essential to a trust company's character." Evidently, silence is also golden. A recent study by the House Banking and Currency Committee reveals that U.S. Trust, which is really a commercial bank, directs the destinies of $11 billion in personal...
...young business-school graduate who uses his M.B.A. training to turn the modest old family firm into a gold mine. Real estate experts on the bank's 1,200-man staff will advise on matters like buying a villa on the Mediterranean. The bank also lends money for many investments. Altogether, the company charges the usual brokerage commission plus advisory fees, which can run as high as three-quarters of 1% of the total investment...
...free municipal bonds and long-term growth stocks, and setting up trusts for his two children. Estate advisers even thought of future grandchildren and provided trusts for them in the doctor's will. "By creating charitable trusts," says Vice Chairman Johnson, "it is possible to make money stick to a family's bones decade after decade...
...code (see THE NATION), many well-used loopholes will be plugged. U.S. Trust will undoubtedly find new gaps in the law and apply them for the enrichment of company and client alike. Meanwhile, there probably will be a strong growth in what Chairman Ammidon calls "the managing of money so that its owners will be free to turn their full attention to their own businesses." Not only will troubled markets and tighter tax laws make it harder for the amateur investor to turn a profit, but many of the new millionaires -or the merely affluent-will find that they...
What enrages the workers is that Arndt, now 31, admittedly devotes his life to a pursuit of pleasure. He spends his money supporting his yachts, estates and Rolls-Royces and buying extravagant gifts for his wife, former Austrian Princess Heñriette von Auersperg, who is four years older than he, and for the many men friends whose company he cherishes. "If Ruhrkohle takes over the responsibility of paying for Arndt, the state will be financing his playing," said Horst Niggermeier, a union official. "Is it right for 1,000 miners to work to support one playboy...