Word: techs
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Quants have been on Wall Street since the 1970s and have been popular with institutional investors like pension funds since the tech bubble burst in 2000. In the past few years, the run-of-the-mill investing public has started to catch on while fund companies like Vanguard, Janus and Charles Schwab have beefed up quant offerings...
...fact, some of us in venture capital are already seeing "green tech" as a growth area. We're backing breakthroughs in energy generation, storage, conservation, transportation and distribution. Clear carbon-emission limits are generating even more demand, and entrepreneurs are rushing to meet it. Just this year my firm has received hundreds of proposals for innovation and opportunities that are breathtaking-- and breath saving. American innovation can end our oil addiction the same way Brazilians kicked their oil habit using ethanol grown from sugarcane...
Just because a guy is frugal, bespectacled and leery of tech stocks doesn't mean he isn't a playa. WARREN BUFFETT, 76, the world's second-richest man, just married ASTRID MENKS, 60, at his daughter's Omaha, Neb., home. That's no big surprise: they have been together for decades. The odd thing is Buffett was married to his first wife until her death in 2004, and she approved of his relationship with Menks (she introduced them). After the 15-min. civil ceremony, the wedding party dined at a seafood place. And, since...
...this particular case, De Kort's lack of tech savvy works for him - a flashy presentation of his bare-bones case would make his video look like a PR tool rather than an earnest documentary. And his mere presence makes the video more immediate than a faceless blog entry would be - it's an original production, not a series of cut and pasted snippets from elsewhere...
...years. New laws aren't retroactive, of course, and what was on the books didn't seem sufficient to convict Quattrone. "I am very pleased that the case will be concluded," he said, emerging from the courthouse last week. "I plan to resume my business career." Northern California's tech investors, many of whom wrote letters of support during Quattrone's two trials, seem poised to embrace him. It is the clearest sign yet that while the world may have changed, it has also moved...