The News Review:
- Efficiencies, timely investing paying off for Menasha Corp.’s units
- The Investing Outlook for Obama’s Presidency
- Investing their way out
- Pay Dirt: A head-to-toe financial guide
- Investing for social impact lures investors
- Time for value investing as stocks turn bargain buys
Efficiencies, timely investing paying off for Menasha Corp.’s units
Appleton Post Crescent, USA
isn’t showing any signs of slowing. “We do feel we’re structured better to weather what’s happening but make no mistake about it, we’re not impervious,” said Arthur Huge, president and chief executive officer of Menasha Corp. “Last year our profitability was better than what it will be this year. “Though company executives are confident the economic downtown eventually will end. “We look at what we can do internally to find efficiencies and we focus on where there may be opportunities for us,” said Michael Waite, president and CEO of Menasha Packaging Co.
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The Investing Outlook for Obama’s Presidency
Wall Street Journal
So much for a honeymoon. Since then, stocks mostly have been selling off amid signs that economies around the world are under siege.
Investing their way out
Times Online, UK
Not so, this time, says the MCA. With so much business tied up in IT, fewcurrent projects are going to be halted although there might be a defermentof new ones. But there is a move towards investing in more cost-effectivetechnology as firms look at sharing IT networks or changing the way they payfor systems, through licensing deals, for example. Clara Challoner Walker, 44, the winner of this year’s MCA IT Consultant award,is associate partner in IBM’s financial services technology consultingpractice. She believes that companies need to continue to invest in thesetough times: “A lot of investment is about creating better IT function,which runs more cheaply and efficiently, and that is exactly whatorganisations will need to have when we come out of this current situation. ”The challenges facing the financial sector are something she knows all about,having worked for 19 years in banking, with NatWest and then RBS after thebanks merged. During the takeover, the largest in the financial servicessector, she led a data alignment programme involving 20m customer accountsand more than 400 IT systems.
Pay Dirt: A head-to-toe financial guide
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN
Think of it as an annual physical in investing. html’>KARA McGUIRE, Star Tribune
Last update: November 16, 2008 – 1:28 AM.
Investing for social impact lures investors
InvestmentNews, NY
OAS_RICH(“Middle”);For many investors, this direct connection between their investment dollars and positive social impact makes community investing an appealing SRI strategy. For example, some investors simply find the tangible nature of a community bank deposit more appealing than the often less tangible benefits of social screening or proxy voting. Typically, the term “community investing” refers to investment options with a strong local or geographic connection. This would include both domestic options such as investing in underserved communities or international options such as microfinance.
Time for value investing as stocks turn bargain buys
Economic Times, India
Investors wake up
to very gloomy news every morning. Companies are short of cash, mutual funds are
facing redemption pressures and people are being laid off. Banks and insurance
companies are being bailed out. They seem to run out of bailout
money faster than the central banks can issue them.