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...momentum to an antiterrorism bandwagon that has already started to roll. Last month, FTSE, a big provider of indexes, and the Conflict Securities Advisory Group (CSAG), a research consultant, launched a "terror free" index that excludes assets for some 400 foreign firms that operate in terrorism-supporting countries. Northern Trust, a huge fund manager that caters to both individuals and institutions, will soon roll out investment products based on that index. A source familiar with the naughty list says both ABB, a Swiss engineering giant that does business in Iran, and the China National Petroleum Corp., which operates in Sudan...
...establishing a terror-free pension option for the city's municipal workforce. He says according to the portfolio studies, the performance of terror-free funds will be as good as or better than alternatives. "Whenever you remove companies from the mix, there will be an impact," says Stephen Schoenfeld, Northern Trust's chief investment officer. "But when you use a very broad index like the FTSE/CSAG and remove comparatively few companies, performance is not going to change much over the long term...
...over the past 30 years to make this moment possible. Son of an irascible Franklin Delano Roosevelt Cabinet member (whose nickname was the Old Curmudgeon), the younger Ickes was raised in the Washington bubble of his time--but he migrated West, worked as a cowboy on a ranch in Northern California and harbored little interest in the kind of work done by his father, who died when the boy was 12. That changed in the summer of 1964, after graduating from college, when Ickes headed south to work for the civil rights movement. The next year, he was beaten...
Palfrey ran her operation - which covered the Washington D.C., Baltimore and northern Virginia area - by telephone from her home in California. Clients would contact her, often in response to advertisements in Washington newspapers and magazines, and she would set them up with women. According to court testimony, Palfrey would sometimes even contact clients for after-action reports to determine whether her employees were doing their job correctly and enthusiastically...
...Ayro had been trained by al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in the late 1990s, where he later fought alongside the Taliban against the Northern Alliance and the U.S. before returning to Somalia in 2003 to join - and quickly come to lead - a group of Somali and foreign radical militants that had been established by Osama bin Laden in remote swamps in the southeast of the country. It was this group that Washington blames for the 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and for the 2002 attack on an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya, as well as several other...