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The purpose of the fund is to invest in habit-forming small ticket items which people think they can't live without, ... That turns out to (include) liquor and tobacco. But that's not it. I hate to tell you. The No. 1 habit-forming commodity is toilet paper.
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You are going to see a flood of deals from insurance companies and banks that started proprietary fund families and have been unable to successfully distribute them through their captive sales organizations.
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You had dozens of mutual funds with triple-digit returns in 1999, and that catapulted some managers into the stratosphere. But their egos and their ability didn't correlate that greatly.
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There's no question investors are swayed by personalities. It's propelled mutual fund managers into the ranks of rock stars.
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You really must look at your entire portfolio and not look just at the past quarter or even the last year. Extraordinary expectations have been built into fund performance for almost six years now. You've witnessed returns of 20 percent or more in most stock equity funds, but in some cases they're just not sustainable.
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I succumbed to temptation and became a scientific administrator, first as Technical Director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center from 1982 to 1984, and then Director from 1984 to 1999. The job of a laboratory director is much different from the job of a physicist, particularly in a time of tight budgets. It is much easier to do physics when someone else gets the funds than it is to get the funds for others to do the research.
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It's a flight to quality. Investors as well as advisers are seeking out large, blue-chip fund companies that appear to have weathered the storm successfully.
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It's got to be constructive if the person managing the fund has a personal stake in it.
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I think everyone in the industry realizes the potential here, ... It would be an enormous boost.
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Most of the restaurants and taverns, especially the ones downtown, support the proposal I've introduced,
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When you say something to the mother, she wants to fist-fight you, ... I just wish something could be done.
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I don't think it's so great they're coming out a week between each other or whatever. It's a disaster, ... The point is, those guys do great work. That's why it's unfortunate they're coming out at the same time. Filmmakers won't compare them, but everybody else will.
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What you're beginning to see is a restoration of investor confidence after two tough years,
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This was a very serious accident with major health consequences, especially for thousands of workers exposed in the early days who received very high radiation doses, and for the thousands more stricken with thyroid cancer, ... By and large, however, we have not found profound negative health impacts to the rest of the population in surrounding areas, nor have we found widespread contamination that would continue to pose a substantial threat to human health, (apart from) a few exceptional, restricted areas.