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Stanfield Professor for International Peace Robert D. Putnam has focused his studied on the state of civic engagement...
...Stretch" is a bit complicated, but at its heart is the miracle of compounding. Over the course of 60 years, assuming an 8% rate of return, $200,000 in an IRA can pay out more than $4.9 million, according to Putnam Investments...
Their trick, in more and more cases, is to route the trade through Gerald Putnam's Archipelago. The Chicago firm, which created one of a new class of trading systems known as electronic communications networks (ECNs), can instantly determine where the best price is--on traditional markets, like the New York Stock Exchange, AMEX and NASDAQ, or among orders that come directly into Archipelago. Trades on the fully automated system are completed in less than a second, while a typical trade on the N.Y.S.E. takes 22 sec. "That's a lifetime in an active market," says CEO Putnam. "Our advantage...
...Putnam, 42, who studied accounting at the University of Pennsylvania, wasn't content to run just a trading network. He's making Archipelago a full-fledged exchange this year by buying the equities arm of the Pacific Stock Exchange. This means that Archipelago will list companies on its own and try to lure blue chips away from other exchanges. If Putnam has his way, Wall Street will no longer be the best route to Easy Street...
...disagree that the absence of contested elections is part of the story," says Stanfield Professor for International Peace Robert D. Putnam. "But the bigger part of the story is that America is caught in this declining tide of political participation...