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This ignores two facts. The first of these is the fact that girls outperform boys in reading and writing by even larger margins. On the National Assessment of Education Progress Tests (NAEP) given to seventeen-year-olds, boys scored three points higher on math and eleven points higher in science than girls, yet girls performed 13 points better in reading and 24 points higher in writing than boys, according to Sommers...
...endowment did, however, significantly outperform several market indicators during the tumultuous fiscal...
...very conservative indicator and a management firm which takes risks, as HMC does, should outperform it, critics have charged...
Which wouldn't much matter if the newcomers would sit patiently for 10 or 20 years. Over long periods, stocks will almost surely outperform safer investments. But I know these people. Some will rush for the door the minute they see the value of their portfolio fall. They sold last week. The rest will hang on, knowing a dip is just a dip, a sigh is just a sigh -- but they will grow increasingly uncomfortable as the dip begins to look like a trough. At that point, they will become a little angry with themselves for ever having got into...
...rose for a third of the firms, they fell for a quarter of them. About 42% of the concerns failed or merged by the end of the decade. In a four-year study of about 900 initial public offerings, Cornell University finance professor Roni Michaely discovered that IPOs generally outperform the rest of the market for only the first six to nine months but then start lagging behind. After two years, IPOs were typically underperforming the S&P by 20%. Michaely explains that IPO prices are usually propped up by their lead underwriters in the early stages with positive reports...