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...Paul McCulley and Ramin Toloui are portfolio managers at Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO), one of the world's largest fixed-income investment firms...
...WORKS: Lenders list the total amount they'd like to loan and the risk level they can stand. They can select individual borrowers who meet their criteria, or the site's Lending Match program will generate a portfolio. The mean 12.32% interest rate beats the current 3% average return...
...Portfolio; 232 pages...
...company-wide.) Dubbed "Simplicity Day," it was also part of a longer-term work in progress. Over the past few years, Philips has struggled to assemble the right collection of businesses and the structure with which to run them. The company has shed unwieldy chunks of an overweight, underperforming portfolio. In a classic make-or-buy decision, Philips dumped its chips and electronics-components units--too capital intensive and too cyclical. Now it is narrowing its focus to consumer technology, lighting and health care. "There's a lot to be done," Van Deursen told his Philips staff in Eindhoven...
...adjective normally associated with Philips. Sprawling, complex or plodding seemed an apt description. "They'd sell something I didn't even know they had," says Scott Geels, analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein in London. "And I wasn't the only one." Kleisterlee took a carving knife to Philips' abstruse portfolio. The semiconductor business--where even his own father labored--as well as other component businesses got the chop. "In the economic reality of today, you have to make a choice," Kleisterlee says. "We focus on the brand; we focus on marketing; we focus on downstream. We are very, very close...