The speed and trajectory of BlackRock's ascent have been breathtaking. Carol Loomis More Quotes by Carol Loomis More Quotes From Carol Loomis The goal of the program, called Giving With Purpose, is to teach college students - and anyone else who cares to register - how to beneficially contribute to charity. That's not necessarily easy. There are IRS rules for giving that must be learned, and there is wayward, wasteful philanthropy to be avoided. Carol Loomis charity purpose college easy In general, the hedge funds were clobbered by the 1969 bear market, ending up in many cases with records that were worse than those put together by aggressive mutual funds denied the luxury of short sales. Carol Loomis ending short luxury together I didn't want to be a 'Fortune' writer who was constrained in any way. Carol Loomis who fortune want way By late 1953, going to New York on vacation, I had lined up several Time Inc. interviews - and what they did was give me a lifelong appreciation of the importance of luck in getting a job. Carol Loomis job me time appreciation The 'Fortune' I came to work for on Jan. 25, 1954, was a monthly, with pages significantly larger than what you're reading; 'art' covers that did not relate to stories inside; and a newsstand price of $1.25. Carol Loomis you reading work art From the minute I got to 'Fortune,' I loved my job. I knew myself to be a virtual dunce about business, and I was wide-eyed about how much I was learning. Carol Loomis job myself learning business On the rare occasions when my family talked about business, the subject was Kansas City's Boss Pendergast and his potential for muscling my dad's small gravel-and-sand operation. Carol Loomis city boss family business Every regulatory speech on derivatives takes a bow to their hedging 'benefits.' Less publicly, regulators pay their respects to derivative profits, a blessed relief from the banks' troubled loans to less-developed countries, highly leveraged companies, and real estate swingers. Carol Loomis real-estate speech real blessed In the 1987 stock market crash, according to the conclusions of the official Brady report, colossal sales of stock index futures by so-called portfolio insurers - whose investment strategies depended entirely on these derivatives - greatly exacerbated the 500-point market decline. Carol Loomis sales stock-market market investment The good thing about a dealer's derivatives portfolio is that it is marked to market. Carol Loomis portfolio market about good Throughout his remarkable business and government career, Robert Rubin, now 65, has both worked exhaustively at reaching well-founded conclusions and rejected the idea that anything - and he means anything - can be a 'provable certainty.' Carol Loomis career anything government business Larry Fink, 61, tall and outgoing and passionate about his business, is the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of the largest asset-management company in the world, BlackRock. Carol Loomis tall company business world There is a certain oddity to Larry Fink having problems in Washington. He is a strong Democrat who has close ties to President Obama and has often been rumored as set to take a big administration job, such as Secretary of the Treasury. Carol Loomis problems big job strong In meeting the challenges of organic growth, BlackRock has the advantage of having an executive team greatly respected for what it has accomplished. Carol Loomis meeting growth team challenges Carl Icahn, corporate raider by trade, is creative, a scrambler, and certainly not to be underestimated. Carol Loomis raider corporate trade creative Wage concessions are difficult to quantify, since their magnitude depends on many operating variables. Carol Loomis wage many depends difficult The 1969 experience has been a rude awakening for many hedge-fund investors and has left some of them with strong reservations about the whole concept. For the first time in their relatively short history, the funds are not growing: in fact, some have suffered large withdrawals of capital, and a few have actually folded. Carol Loomis experience strong time history Limited partnerships are required to amend their filings whenever important changes, such as the admission of new partners, take place. Carol Loomis partnerships new place important If a company's stock is undervalued - as many managers believe theirs is - a repurchase may offer the best payoff of all. Carol Loomis best company may believe Approaches to determining stock values vary, but fundamentally, each company judging itself undervalued is saying that its future stream of earnings justifies a higher price than the stock market is willing to accord it. Carol Loomis saying values company future
