That type of track record made the understated, low-key Neff a favorite manager of many other professional fund managers--an "investor's investor, " if you will.
"You've got to let these doomsday guys have their day in the sun because their days in the sun don't come around very often--the optimists have usually been right, " says John Dessauer , the veteran editor of John Dessauer's Investor's World.
Equity capital from the founder(s) and investor(s).
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Schwab's "Portfolio Checkup, " for instance, is an online asset allocation planner that's based on an investor's tolerance for risk.
Special Offer: McDonald's is one of the stocks in Forbes Growth Investor's top 50 portfolio.
It was the U.S. investor group's first acquisition in Japan--but it surely won't be the last.
But the problem is that the accountant's definition of the estimated useful life of an asset can be very different from an investor's definition.
And while Dell's year-long accounting probe makes it plain that the company was struggling to meet investor's sky-high expectations, (see: "Dell: Cooked Books and Computers") the company remains in robust financial health, even as rivals Hewlett-Packard and Apple continue to tear off fresh chunks of the PC market at Dell's expense.
It's a lot of work for a sector that shouldn't be the core portion of any investor's portfolio.
"We're not moving out of Nordic area, " Investor's chief executive, Borje Ekholm, told Forbes.com.
Investor's Business Daily, I think, was finally the straw that broke the camel's back.
The ratings agency Moody's Investor Services has upgraded Pakistan's sovereign ratings to stable from negative.
While this can work, it can also put an investor's assets at severe risk.
Soon, if he follows past behaviour, Mr Ebner will be demanding a seat on Investor's board.
Forbes Growth Investor's aggressive growth portfolio gained 17.7% in the first six months of 2006.
Moreover, intelligent automated assetmanagers might seek out the instruments that best fit an investor's desired risk profile.
He made Institutional Investor's All-America Research Team, which jacked up his annual salary to nearly a million dollars.
Having such an account could scratch an investor's "investment itch, " he says, and serve as an educational tool.
He made Institutional Investor's All America Research Team, which jacked up his annual salary to nearly a million dollars.
"In 1999 he was Institutional Investor's telecom analyst of the year, and a fan called him "the ultimate insider.
It is an inexpensive asset and the odds are in the investor's favor.
For this reason, if the goal is to truly "invest, " I don't believe gold belongs in an average investor's portfolio.
Investor's prudence may be a comfort to its shareholders today, yet for some time it was a source of great aggravation.
Indeed, lost in a Washington culture that promotes "doing something" at the expense of reason, short-sellers are an investor's best friend.
To take just one example, in Germany the law allows companies to impose a 5% limit on any investor's voting rights.
So there was cause for a bitter taste in some investor's mouths.
Jeff Matthews, a Berkshire shareholder and author of a book on Mr. Buffett, said the acquisition didn't meet the investor's usual criteria.
Despite the seemingly dire consequences, the case is low on investor's radar.
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