Word: outperform
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Jonathan C. King, director of investments at Dartmouth, says most investors with money in equities have experienced losses. But he says he takes the long-term view. "Over time, if you measure performance of things like equities over 10 or 20 years, they outperform bonds and cash. It makes sense to be invested in things like equities," he adds...
...terrific year when we outperform the benchmark by one point or more," said HMC President Jack R. Meyer. "I don't think it's realistic to expect any institutional fund to do that over more than one year...
...only thing I'm really worried about is that three points," said Jack R. Meyer president and CEO of HMC in an interview yesterday. "It is unusual for us to under-perform." Meyer said HMC aims to outperform the benchmarks even in down markets...
...fact, a study by economists Judith Chevalier and Glenn Ellison, to be published later this year in the Journal of Finance, argues that young fund managers are usually more averse to risk taking and actually outperform their older counterparts by a small margin. Case in point: Blaine Rollins, 31, a University of Colorado graduate who, when he's not playing laser tag or going to an Aerosmith concert, oversees a combined $670 million in assets at the Janus Balanced Fund and Janus Equity Income Fund. "There's always some executive who views you as a snot-nosed kid," says Rollins...
...technology skills become important long before people look for jobs. They become important as soon as children begin to learn. In a decade-long series of studies, the Education Department reports that students in classes that use computers outperform their peers on standardized tests of basic skills by an average of 30%. And a 1996 study showed that students with access to the Internet not only presented their final projects in more creative ways but also turned in work that was more complete and had better syntheses of different points of view. Numerous other studies show that children in technology...