The News Review:
- The People Factor: Strengthening America by Investing in Public …
- Angel Investors’ Wings Are Being Clipped
- Boston Private Value Investors Becomes Granite Investment Advisors
- Successfully Investing in Biotech: Smaller Companies Lots of Patience
- Claymore/Robeco Developed International Equity ETF Changes Name …
The People Factor: Strengthening America by Investing in Public …
FXBusiness
In the new Brookings Institution Press book The People Factor: Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service (April 2 2009) Harvard professor Linda J. Bilmes and IBM Vice President W. Scott Gould argue that the country cannot prosper without a strong highly functioning federal workforce to manage the government. The authors call for an investment of $10 billion to improve recruiting training and management of the federal workforce predicting that investment will yield $300 to $600 billion in productivity gains. Packed with cost and performance data as well as new research on what motivates applicants for government jobs these former government executives provide a compelling business case for investing in the civil service so that it may better serve the nation.
Angel Investors’ Wings Are Being Clipped
New York Times
They invest small amounts usually between $10000 and $1 million. Angels invest their own money as opposed to other investors’ money as venture capitalists do so they are more acutely impacted by market fluctuations than venture investors. That might explain why angel investing was hit so much harder than venture investing in 2008.
Boston Private Value Investors Becomes Granite Investment Advisors
FXBusiness
Mar 31 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) —-Boston Private Value Investors (BPVI) announced today that the company will become a 100% employee owned and operated firm and will change its name to Granite Investment Advisors. As Granite Investment Advisors the company will continue to provide the same high-quality investment management services and advice it has delivered to its individual and institutional customers for twenty-five years. In conjunction with this change we are pleased to announce that Scott B. Schermerhorn former Managing Director of Choate Investment Advisors of Boston MA has joined the firm in a leadership role. Schermerhorn’s expertise includes portfolio management research and analysis and executive management.
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Successfully Investing in Biotech: Smaller Companies Lots of Patience
Seeking Alpha
But a closer look shows that this deal is much like the big pharma mergers which generate short-term balance sheet improvements and massive lay-offs. The major biotechs share big pharma’s desperate need to fill their pipelines with someone else’s innovations. Biotech mergers and acquisitions typically occur when the market is in a down cycle and smaller companies are pressed for cash to complete product development and commercialization. Acquiring companies should make their purchases when their stock price is high enough to avoid diluting existing shares (and hurting existing shareholders).
Claymore/Robeco Developed International Equity ETF Changes Name …
FXBusiness
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