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The High Cost of Cold Feet
"The story shows how many professional mutual fund managers missed the stock market's historic rally of 2009 because they were still burned by the losses of 2008-and how that skittishness cost ordinary investors billions of dollars in potential gains."
Tags: Mutual Fund Managers; Stock Market; Wall Street Journal; Shares; Stock; Mutual Fund
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IPOs: a Rigged Game
A Bloomberg News investigation details "how Wall Street has rigged the $50-billion-a-year initial public offering (IPO) business, favoring powerful and well-connected money managers at the expense of legions of small investors." The series shed light on "who was benefiting from the steep stock rises." The reports include "a rare behind-the scene examination into the multi-million-dollar business of raising money for U.S. corporations," as they reveal how the system provides "a select group of underwriters, brokers and investors with an opportunity to capture enormous profits." The investigation also documents how "company executives profit from IPOs - often at the expense of their own companies."
Tags: TAPE; DISKETTE; SEC; investment banks; attorneys; mutual funds; commissions; CEOs; venture capital; shares; equity
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What Dreyfus Didn't Divulge
Business Week investigates Michael Schoenberg, a portfolio manager at Dreyfus Corp. They found that Schoenberg had bought shares for himself in stocks owned by his mutual fund.
Tags: Micro-cap stocks
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Solv-Ex Corp., a tiny New Mexico company, claims to have the technology to extract oil from tar sands at half the current cost. If successful, the company could unlock one of the world's biggest untapped oil reserves and significantly reduce U.S. dependence on foreign imports. however, after 15 years of trying, the company has earned no profits, generated no sales and produced no oil. It has, however, developed a flair for raising money, particularly form company's stock by international swindlers ultimately uncovered the biggest mutual fund scandal of the year. Solv-Ex was a central figure in the scandal that rocked London's Morgan Grenfell Asset Management and led to the firing of prominent fund manager Peter Young and others. (March 22 - December, 1, 1996)
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No title (id: 13274)
A handful of mutual fund managers spent the waning days of 1995 jockeying for the number 1 spot in the all-important year-end rankings. Smart Money takes an inside look at the industry's hottest race. (February 1996)
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Fragile Nest Egg?
National Journal reports that "More and more Americans are entrusting their savings to mutual fund managers. Is the government doing enough to safeguard the interests of investors in this $2 trillion industry?"
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No title (id: 10464)
Barron's describes how Boston's Fidelity Management, the world's largest mutual fund corporation, faces potential problems in the near future, including shaky markets, risky ventures and ethical gray areas, July 25, 1994.
Tags: NY Laing 4 pages