Word: portfolios
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...though, the likelihood of a full-scale meltdown is, if anything, less likely because of Asia's troubles. Japan may hold more than $315 billion in U.S. Treasuries, or more than 9% of the total, but the notes give Tokyo some of the highest returns in its otherwise sagging portfolio. The roughly 5.64% yield on a 10-year Treasury bond is more than 3 percentage points higher than the payout on equivalent Japanese securities. Besides, any move out of U.S. bonds would drive down the value of U.S. currency, pushing up the yen. And a strong yen would make exports...
...they were right to flee." Meanwhile, financial institutions that will be closed because they cannot satisfy strict standards of reserve capital will have their assets, mainly foolhardy real estate developments, auctioned off. But that massive sell-off could lead to a sharp fall in values that will affect the portfolio of even sound financial institutions that hold the same type of properties...
...Michael O'Higgins, a successful if inconspicuous money manager, thrilled the investment world with a simple formula for generating superior returns: Buy the dogs. He discovered that if you buy the 10 stocks among the Dow 30 with the highest yields (dividend divided by price) and updated the portfolio once a year, the returns would triple those posted by the Dow Jones industrial average over the previous two decades. O'Higgins' 1991 book, Beating the Dow, was an instant hit and spawned a cultlike following. There are two Websites, three mutual funds, dozens of Unit Investment Trusts (UITs) and untold...
...highest paid fund manager, Jonathon S. Jacobson, made nearly $7.6 million managing Harvard's domestic equities and emerging market portfolio. Last year, Jacobson earned $4.7 million. Jacobson's compensation is nearly 30 times President Neil L. Rudenstine's salary...
...spectacular performance and that's recognized in the compensation," said James H. Rowe III '73, vice president of government, community and public affairs. "I'm told by [Meyer] that the portfolio managers would be compensated far better on Wall Street, so they're getting literally a fraction of what they would if they joined their colleagues elsewhere...