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...should consistently beat a market index such the Dow Jones Industrial Average or the S&P 500. Wall Street, where portfolio managers earn millions picking winners, knows this isn't true; brokers can leverage January optimism and reap big gains...
...Russell 2000 helped prop up its wilting share price. This past week, 1-800-Flowers.com neared $6 per share as portfolio managers who track the Russell 2000 purchased it. At its current share price, 1-800-Flowers.com has a market capitalization...
...stay that way until the following morning. But times -- and technology -- have changed. Nowadays, when this portfolio manager for the $1.8 billion Salomon Brothers Fund arrives at the office, he has to spend a half-hour catching up on...
...investors. ''This honeymoon period is going to end, and it could end in the first quarter,'' said Linda Killian, portfolio manager of the IPO Plus Aftermarket Fund. ''The e-tailers are going to bring the first focus of how the Internet group...
...year's end so their 1999 reports would reflect the market's best stocks. ''There was tremendous pressure on portfolio managers not to sell these stocks last year,'' Pradilla said. ''If it hadn't been for that, all this selling would...
...are more interested in capital appreciation than cash flow, and dividends are cash flow,'' said Art Bonnel, portfolio manager of U.S. Global Investor's Bonnel Growth Fund, who has studied dividend distributions. Most U.S. investors...
...sense, says Morningstar bond fund analyst Sarah Bush. But she suggests going further and checking how long the portfolio manager has been in place. "If you're buying based on a track record, make sure the (current) manager was responsible...
...screening out corporate bad guys and screening in the corporate good guys has been a good thing," said Diane Keefe, portfolio manager of Pax's High Yield Fund. Pax World Funds introduced the first socially responsible mutual fund in 1971 and now...
...definite possibility and that companies are going to have a harder time than expected," said Michael Mann, senior portfolio manager of AXP Mutual Fund. "Now people are not talking about a moderating economy, but a severe slowdown." Mann is...
...continue to slump. "They were the leaders. Nobody ever faults you for owning the leaders," said Charles White, portfolio manager at Avatar Associates. "Now all of a sudden, we are seeing some cracks in their stories, and nobody has any stomach...