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...Rohini Nilekani, making the money was the easy part. The Bangalore-based wife of Infosys CEO Nandan Nilekani, Rohini owns 1.67% of the Indian outsourcing company, and her personal fortune soared to about $300 million along with the meteoric rise of its stock. She calls her windfall "a quite frightening amount of money." And as soon as it started rolling in, the social activist and journalist began to look for ways to give enormous sums away...
Webster projects that his revenues this year will crack six figures. With two full-time and two part-time employees, he produces stock cards of his own design and wholesales them for $2 apiece (each retails for $4 to $4.50), fills wedding-invitation orders from retailers and does letterpress jobs for other designers. Webster's in it for the long haul. "The final product and the effect are what I'm in love with," he says...
...early 2004. She loves the instant gratification letterpress printing offers. "When you're done, you have a stack of whatever you've just printed right in front of you," says Krowinski, who owns three letterpresses. She's a one-person shop, dividing her time between turning out her own stock cards, which she wholesales for $2.25, and custom work like wedding invitations and personal stationery. She projects 2006 revenues in the middle five figures...
...know how to pick a good stock, right? Read up on a company's products, listen to what the CEO has to say, figure out where the industry is headed. Well, that's rubbish and pure distraction, according to quants, a breed of computer-loving money managers, many of them ex-mathematicians and physicists, who are gaining a following among ordinary investors...
Then why the recent spike in performance? One thing quant funds have had going for them lately is a market that favors value. Hyped-up fast-growing companies haven't done as well as more established, steady firms--and the latter are the sort of stock that quant investors often end up with. That's because their process, which usually includes hypothesis-testing an idea before it's added to the computer model, relies on historical data, and growth companies tend to work because of what has yet to happen. The fabulous returns of the past few years...