Word: mutuals
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...proud to be. "History taught us that we cannot trust these Europeans," the lawyer, 42, told Time. "Look at what happened in 1920: they divided up the Ottoman Empire, even though they had pledged not to do that. People call us paranoid, but we're not." The mistrust is mutual. Since the E.U. officially invited Turkey to start talks last December, European misgivings have deepened. Last week, Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel tried to insist on a last-minute change to the terms of the negotiations to allow for less than full E.U. membership. Much now hangs...
...best, period. In 20 years of running Yale University's endowment, which has $15 billion, he has delivered average annual returns of 16.1%--blowing away the typical college endowment's return of 11.6%. Swensen, 51, author of Unconventional Success (Free Press), spoke with TIME's DANIEL KADLEC on how mutual funds fail the average Joe, why Peter Lynch is misguided and how you should invest...
TIME Good thing. If you're right about mutual funds, most of us have no shot...
...feed our winners and kill our losers. But with investments, if something is going well, we need to think about paring back. If it's going poorly, we need to think about nurturing it. The evidence that people chase winners is overwhelming. It's not all their fault. Mutual funds advertise funds that have done well--just before they start...
Summers knew that Shleifer’s wife, Nancy Zimmerman, was running a mutual-fund company in Russia—it was the country’s first—and told his friend to be careful. But the conversation, Summers told the assistant district attorney, didn’t go much further. “It wasn’t my habit to do U.S. government business on beaches,” he said...