Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea of choosing firms on the basis not only of the rate of return they can produce for the portfolio, but also on the basis of the kind of help they can offer to the overall portfolio management is a strikingly new one in financial circles. Most outside managers assume they are going to be asked to compete one with another and with the main portfolio and ranked in the order of revenue they produce. This system of competition puts a great pressure on short-run investment policy because the companies are usually ranked against each other and those...
...think the annual ranking of competing managers puts an undue investment pressure on the portfolio for the short run. What I hope to do is find about five partners and say that as far as I'm concerned, ours is a marriage for life," Cabot says...
...return for the prestige of handling part of Harvard's portfolio, Cabot expects investment advice, economic computers, or whatever help the firms can offer to help increase the overall rate of return on Harvard's portfolio...
...trying to get us all to not only look at our own piece of action, but to look at the whole piece of action--the total portfolio...
...company staff will probably include a fixed income expert, a short term investments handler, a bonds researcher, an equity trader and assistant, someone experienced in general portfolio management and a few research generalists. Cabot's search for his staff is just as expansive as the search for outside firms. He hopes to begin naming his new employees soon, however...