Barra's advice: Stick to index funds unless something more compelling than past performance is motivating you.
But you don't need Barra's complex analysis to draw some simple conclusions from the study.
Mr. Barra's new book is "Mickey and Willie: The Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age, " out in May.
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The Twin Otter is one of just a handful of planes capable of landing on Barra's beach runway.
Barra's broad avenues, shopping malls and gated communities were built around car transportation and can evoke Orange County, Calif.
Barra's appointment in February raised eyebrows around GM, in part because she wasn't a vehicle engineer and in part because she was plucked out of human resources.
Barra's mission is to make the hard product decisions early--and stick with them--so that GM can speed the transition to "global architectures": meaning the use of single sets of components for vehicles worldwide to drive up GM's economies of scale.
Three highway projects, including speeding travel to the international airport, plus a subway stop will better connect Barra to Rio's bustling beach communities of Ipanema and Copacabana.
"The future is Barra, it's inevitable, " said Isaac Peres, chief executive of Multiplan, a shopping mall developer that helped pioneer Barra some 30 years ago with its first mall.
Hardware acceleration of both 2D and 3D UI elements -- shown off to great effect by Google's Hugo Barra, who managed to scroll through three lists simultaneously without inducing any lag on the Motorola Xoom -- should make Honeycomb as delicious to look at as it sounds, while our personal favorite, the new tablet-specific email interface, should be part of Gmail yesterday.
He is the driving force in Alliance Boots' wholesale strategy, along with Ornella Barra, the company's wholesale and commercial director and Pessina's partner of 24 years.
Then, by adding two known costs, the annual expense ratio and trading commissions, Barra computed what it calls a fund's hurdle rate.
The biggest impact of the Olympic renovation will be to accelerate Rio's growth toward the southern beaches of Barra da Tijuca, which still has unbuilt space, and where the Games will be centered.
One success so far: Barra pushed to speed up the consolidation of GM's three small-car engine lines, arguing that it shouldn't wait four years to introduce a single, more fuel-efficient engine that could be used worldwide.
From 1975 through 1989, dividend yield was close to 5% for U.S. stocks, according to a recent study by MSCI Barra.
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