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...market. Consider: Britain's gays - accounting for around 6% of the population, or about 3.6 million - pocket an estimated $130 billion annually, according to a recent survey. Openly gay men in full-time jobs earn $18,000 a year more than the male national average; among lesbians, the premium is $12,000. (It's a similar story in France, too.) Hence, for advertisers - whether dreaming up mainstream publicity fit for a gay audience, or appealing directly via gay media - it's cool to think pink. "This is an important market [with] good levels of disposable income," says a spokesman...
...reason? Hot results. According to Thomson Financial and the National Venture Capital Association, buyout funds returned 31.3% last year, scorching the 6.3% for the Standard & Poor's 500. Over time, though, buyout funds haven't provided the same premium. The annualized return for buyout funds over the past 20 years was 13.3%, compared with...
...Protecting New Hampshire, though important to any presidential contender (or contender's spouse), is just one reason some people are angry about the deal. Critics say it further compresses the time in which to test candidates, puts a premium on money and fundraising over retail political skill, and risks a chaotic competition for first-in-the-country bragging rights. "The people who want this have the votes, so the process is going ahead," says Don Fowler, the former DNC head who is on the committee that will make the change, "but I think it's going to cause tremendous confusion...
...question for investors is how richly to pay 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...
...outsourcing companies, including tech giant Infosys, have opened shop in town. A flood of new money has arrived, thanks to outsourcing jobs, surging real estate prices and expatriate remittances. As a result, many locals have become middle-class, upper-middle-class or even rich. One ad for "premium luxury apartments" promises, IF YOU'RE IN LIMELIGHT, THIS SUITS YOU THE BEST. AND IF YOU'RE NOT, THIS PUTS YOU IN LIMELIGHT...