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HOLLIDAY Aw, shoot ... "Sustainable growth"? That's the phrase we use. We have "sustainable growth" reviews every year that track the life cycle of our products. We want to know what our products are doing three steps downstream and how they are eventually recycled back into the environment. It's much more efficient if you look at the total life cycle instead of what happens at one manufacturing plant...
...invited on TV; they lift a fund company's profile. Yet starless American Funds, part of Los Angeles--based Capital Group Cos., zoomed past star-centric Fidelity Investments this year in total managed assets through September--$738 billion for American Funds, $716 billion for Fidelity. The company is on track next year to topple kingpin Vanguard ($774 billion), which rode the popularity of index funds to surpass Fidelity in 2003. American Funds has quietly become home to six of the 10 largest stock funds in the U.S.--including the biggest of them all, the $117 billion Growth Fund of America...
...star system won't vanish as long as there are bona fide market beaters like Bill Miller, whose Legg Mason Value Trust is on track to outrun the Standard & Poor's 500 for a 15th consecutive year. "But the industry is waking up to the scale problem that even stars have when a fund grows large," says Christine Benz, author of Morningstar Guide to Mutual Funds...
...ousted the Taliban and sent bin Laden into hiding. And as al-Zarqawi's stature has risen, his relationship with bin Laden has apparently grown more complex and contentious, like that of an apprentice who has eclipsed his master. At stake in their struggle for control, say those who track the two men, is the future of the global Islamic terrorist movement and its war with the U.S. and its allies...
Some call the nonprofit organization that holds the hands of million-dollar business entrepreneurs crazy, but Endeavor CEO and co-founder Linda Rottenberg says, "That's when you know you're on the right track." Endeavor's 236 entrepreneurs so far--from Latin America and most recently from South Africa--would agree. Endeavor's approach of "catalyzing entrepreneurship," by merging microcredit and private equity with consulting support networks, is part of a broad effort to foster entrepreneurship in the developing world. Endeavor and others hope the companies they nurture will serve as examples for others to follow. So far, Endeavor...