Word: portfolios
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...money-management firm with a nice-guy culture was looking for an eats-nails-for-breakfast, kick-butt manager to run a new area of its portfolio. The first hire was aggressive with a capital A. In an office where flamboyant egos were scarce, the hotshot's first move was to order $200,000 worth of office furniture. "He needed to be a star," reports Elaine Eisenman of Management & Capital Partners, whose firm was enlisted to find a better match. The new guy flamed in four months, just long enough to get the furniture delivered. You know what...
...YoungBiz Better Investing Camp, Atlanta and Washington, right. For kids 11 and older; demonstrates how to build a portfolio, research long-term investments and balance budgets. At its sister entrepreneurship camp, teens become CEOs, complete with business cards...
This Darwinian action has been repeating in tech land for decades. Yet through it all tech's risks have yielded ample rewards. The key, as ever, is a long-term approach, limiting tech holdings to a comfortable percentage of your portfolio and staying well diversified within the sector. In most cases, that means investing through mutual funds...
Select Equity is widely considered to be one of HMC’s best team of investors in the 185-member firm, which handles all of the University’s endowment. Over the last decade, the portion of the portfolio overseen by Select Equity has outpaced the returns of the S&P 500 index by an average of 4 percent a year...
...Economy, still hovering at or about (or below) zero growth, not responding. Unemployment ticking up. Consumers, making up two-thirds of said economy, desperately needing to continue whistling past this graveyard and spend as if they still had a secure job and a solid portfolio. And now the commonly quoted date for turnaround is edging into next spring...