Word: strategist
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...process.” In a different camp, Michael C. Koenigs ’09 and Aneliese K. Palmer ’12 bring much needed humor to the UC elections. How did Koenigs decide on Palmer for his running mate? “I had my chief campaign strategist scour Facebook,” Koenigs says. “He came across this particularly qualified and brilliant young lady, whom he poked. She poked back.” Koenigs views Palmer’s “youth and origins” as her most appealing characteristics. But while...
...these days of extreme emotions, one of the biggest surprises has been the relative calm of the Indian stock market. It is about where it was the day before the attacks, with no sudden drop or panicked selling. Yet investors have certainly noticed the attacks; Mark Matthews, chief Asia strategist for Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong, says that India missed the rally over the past week enjoyed by the rest of the Asian markets. "India didn't get a share of that bounce." In the long term, he says, investors may simply start thinking of India as a place where...
...come a long way, baby, since 1978. Uncloseted homosexuals occupy seats in Congress, state legislatures and city councils; as author and political strategist David Mixner notes, "almost every state has at least one openly gay or lesbian elected official, including Alabama, Montana and Oklahoma." The gay subculture is a hip harbinger of official culture and can boast its own nationwide cable network in Logo (two if you count Bravo!). Homocentric movies like Milk have replaced homophobic movies like Advise and Consent; and in TIME you read reviews like this instead of the 1962 review of Victim...
...even with more bad news on earnings, stocks worldwide still look cheap, according to an analysis headed by Robert Buckland, a global equity strategist at Citigroup. Even assuming corporate profitability falls 50% all told (so far it's down only about 10% from last year's peak), P/E ratios will still be in line with their 40-year average. "There's a major space for earnings to fall," says Buckland. "What we're saying is, a lot of that fall is already in the price...
...gains - which must be passed along to investors. We might therefore also see a round of year-end selling of mutual-fund shares by investors looking to offset gains and avoid paying taxes by locking in losses. "Tax-loss selling is a very powerful force," says Joe Battipaglia, market strategist for the private client group at Stifel Nicolaus. "The market is down 50% from a year ago - those are sizable losses...