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Search results for "Mutual Fund Managers" ...

  • 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

    By Russell Pearlman

    Smart Money

    2009

  • 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

    By Adam Levy;Ed Leefeldt

    Bloomberg News (New York)

    2000

  • 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

    By Gary Weiss

    Business Week

    1998

  • No title (id: 13815)

    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)

    Tags: Steffy Solv-Ex Corp. Contest entry 14 pgs.

    By None

    Bloomberg Business News (Princeton, N.J.)

    1996

  • 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)

    Tags: Safien Dow count Investments Federal Reserve 6 pgs.

    By None

    Smart Money Magazine

    1996

  • 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?"

    Tags: investors Wall Street stock brokers SEC Securities and Exchange Commission insider trading personal trading financial Investment Company Institute

    By Paul Starobin

    National Journal

    1994

  • 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

    By None

    Barron's

    1994