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Meanwhile, Ovitz has been upgrading his real estate portfolio. Even as the ax was poised at Disney, he sewed up the purchase of the Dancing Bear Ranch in Aspen for $5.5 million. The 500-plus acres are near Disney chairman Michael Eisner's home, although presumably they won't be vacationing together as they have in the past. In Malibu, California, Ovitz is buying a few acres of property on a seaside bluff, a $5 million parcel belonging to Motown mogul Berry Gordy. Malibu property has a distressing habit of sliding into the sea or turning into charcoal, yet this...
...matter of principle. Three months into his presidency, he announced that "foreign policy is not what I came here to do." Christopher and his team were essentially custodians; all the hotshots were running domestic policy, and soon the State Department's budget was dropping and pieces of its portfolio were shifting over to Commerce and Treasury. Foreign policy became an extension of trade policy by other means: the bailout of Mexico, the passage of NAFTA, the concessions from China and Japan...
Cash. The typical fund keeps 7% to 10% of its assets in cash, a stash to pay off investors redeeming shares. That part of the portfolio is a drag on performance when the stock market...
...digital cellular phones that can receive news, weather and stock info with UP's software by late this year. "We know we've won when this technology becomes an expected feature, not a curiosity," says UP vice president Ben Linder. At the rate UP is going, managing a portfolio and checking E-mail between calls could soon seem downright ordinary...
...institutional investors who did vote with I.C.C.R. is New York State comptroller H. Carl McCall, who manages a portfolio that includes 1.2 million Texaco shares. "As shareholders, we have a responsibility to demand an accounting from companies on how they plan to deal with these kinds of issues, because it's clear that if a company has an image of diversity, it's more acceptable to consumers and therefore more profitable," McCall says. "The market reacts negatively to companies where there's a perception that the culture supports discrimination...