Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...steady-as-she-goes financial procedures of most insurers, Executive Life had blazed a fast track to spectacular growth, grabbing market share by offering higher payouts on annuities and charging lower fees than most of its competitors. To meet its growing obligations, the insurer plunged headlong into the high-yield bond market controlled by Drexel Burnham's Michael Milken and puffed up its $10.1 billion asset base with $6.4 billion in risky junk bonds. Once the junk-bond market fizzled in 1989, First Executive Corp., Executive Life's holding company, began to sustain huge losses. California insurance officials...
Some 62,000 First Capital annuity holders in 49 states know exactly what he means. Pensioners whose retirement savings are locked in the wreckage must now wait to see what they will be able to recover. Like Executive Life, First Capital invested recklessly in risky high-yield bonds: 46% of its assets are junk...
...support of a majority of Israelis in holding on to the occupied territories, at least for the present. Iraq's Scud attacks on Israel during the war and Palestinian support for the bombardments heightened distrust of Arab intentions among Israelis. Even the opposition Labor Party seems reluctant to yield too much of the occupied lands; leader Shimon Peres suggested recently that he was not eager to give up the Golan Heights...
These projects aim to help teaching fellows assemble portfolios reviewing their work, and should yield "videotaped vignettes" based on real-life classroom situations and a handbook for junior faculty...
LAST YEAR, The Crimson reported that Harvard Management Company (HMC) officials had shifted significant portions of Harvard's endowment funds into high-risk, high-yield capital ventures not under any outside supervision. We were worried. Harvard's money managers, we argued, should never operate without external ethical oversight...