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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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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 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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It's got to be constructive if the person managing the fund has a personal stake in it.
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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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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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The success rate is still in the 70 percent range,
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Every game is an important one, ... And it's not just the seniors. For juniors, they need to be on the field to get noticed by colleges.
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We feel so lucky, with computers and all taking over, to be able to do this beautiful, old fashioned technique,
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There's just something visceral about moving a puppet frame by frame, ... There's a magical quality about it. Maybe you can get smoother animation with computers, but there's a dimension and emotional quality to this kind of animation that fits these characters and this story.
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Most of the restaurants and taverns, especially the ones downtown, support the proposal I've introduced,
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We've got to make progress every week, ... We can't wait for a league game to make it important. Every week is important.