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...Lamont, the Democratic challenger who faces off against incumbent Joe Lieberman in Tuesday's Connecticut primary, has run into another problem with his multimillion-dollar stock portfolio. Last spring the anti-war candidate had to deal with revelations that he owned up to $50,000 worth of stock in Halliburton, the services giant that has been at the center of controversy over its lucrative post-war contracts in Iraq. And now, only a day after he took Wal-Mart to task at a campaign stop in Bridgeport, a review of his personal financial disclosure forms has revealed that he owns...
Before joining the Stanford Management Company, Taborsky was a global derivatives trader at John W. Henry & Company, cofounder of Gargoyle Fund Management, and a fixed income portfolio manager for the Abacus Financial Group...
...seeds into syrups, flour, feed and other products--sees ethanol and biodiesel as bigger parts of its future. Indeed, last month Woertz announced "robust" investment plans for its ethanol business. "Whether it's food, feed or fuel, I think there are great opportunities to expand across our portfolio," she says. So, what about running the largest woman-led company in the U.S.? Her focus is on leading the company, she says, not her status...
...Adding PCCW to this expanding portfolio may prove trickier. The news that Macquarie was negotiating with PCCW chairman Richard Li, son of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, for his telecom business (which includes a mobile-phone operation and a promising Internet-TV venture) immediately drew a rival bid from private-equity firm Texas Pacific Group and its Asian affiliate, Newbridge Capital Group. Not only does Macquarie have a rival suitor, but the Chinese government may also fatally complicate the deal. That's because China Network Communications Group, one of China's state-owned telephone companies, has a 20% stake...
...today for a stake in companies that will profit from these trends in the future. The Indian market trades at a 20% premium over other emerging markets, making it too pricey to jump into now, says Adrian Mowat, JP Morgan's chief Asian equities strategist. Jon Thorn, a portfolio manager at India Capital Fund, disagrees. "The long-term case for investing there is without question the best in the world. I'm going around to all my investors saying, Now is the time," Thorn says. "You need to buy when there are moments of panic." Savvy investors, he says, should...