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Technology funds and small-cap funds are where the volatility is going to be.


Gary Ambrose

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ALBERT RICHARDS Small cap value funds tend to hold up better when the market is down.
CLAUDIA MOTT Volatility and interest rates are higher. Those are things that help hedge funds perform. We think p...
ROBERT SCHULMAN This is not a retail driven market. It's the hedge funds, the mutual funds and the institutional inv...
LEWIS BORSELLINO The volatility of international equity, interest rate and currency markets has the potential to sign...
ATUL LELE Some funds shift their assets heavily, but it's really hard to blunt the blow of volatility. Negativ...
SONYA MORRIS A lot of funds are short natural gas so they amplified the downside move. Then, the bounce was on so...
AGBELI AMEKO The spam filter [suggestion] came up last year. It was a request from the Technology Fee Committee, ...
BETSY DRAPER Funds of funds are supposed to have the ability to look at all these funds that are trying to do the...
JEFFERSON DUARTE Technology funds can play a role in a diversified portfolio. And if the economy turns around, techno...
JEFF TJORNEHOJ The good thing about institutional funds is that they tend to be more disciplined. So if you need a ...
JEFF KELLY Funds moved back into technology shares, on strengthening sentiment in the industry.
DAVID LI The No. 1 reason growth is doing better than value in small-cap stocks this year is the strength in ...
WILLIAM MCVAIL They're going to prioritize where they're going to send checks. The owner or manager is using the ca...
DAVID WRAY The other thing is the redemption going on mutual and hedge funds due to declining stock valuations....
BARROS CONTI The other thing is the redemption going on mutual and hedge funds due to declining stock valuations....
AMAURY DE BARROS CONTI You have to be able to stomach volatility, ... If you've held (the funds) for the long term, then yo...
KUNAL KAPOOR Those are federal funds. Maybe there's some confusion ... we control all the funds.
LANGDON NEAL There is a fraud going on in this country where offshore hedge funds dwelling in an unregulated envi...
CHRISTIAN SMITH When international funds have outperformed domestic funds, ... people tend to buy international fund...
ANDREW CLARK The keeper of looted funds is as corrupt as the thief who stole the funds,for without a keeper of st...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Where the federal government and the taxpayer has had funds misused, we need to use the full extent ...
SYLVIA MATHEWS BURWELL Where the money is going is into global and international diversified funds, ... It's really not the...
ANDREW CLARK A lot of style purists want to have small cap foreign funds. But (the category) still in its infancy...
KUNAL KAPOOR First and foremost it's the size, the market cap of these Chinese companies. The magic number here i...
ALEX TAN Most of our roads are in a condition where the surface is severely deteriorated and in need of major...
IAN REID Microsoft is really quite under-owned by technology funds coming into the year. Most of them has rea...
CATHERINE BENZ Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds t...
SIMON MAINWARING Gainers outnumber losers and sentiment is not bad. But investors are keeping away from large-cap tec...
MASAFUMI NAKAYAMA Given the magnitude of the contributions, it is inevitable that some of the funds are not going to b...
ERIC SCHWARTZ The funds like to 'whip up the surf,' which is where Iran enters the picture.
JULIAN PHILLIPS Fidelity has 300 funds with different managers. As a company, they've lightened up on technology as ...
DONALD DION The majority of Fidelity growth and growth & income funds remained underweight technology - some by ...
JIM LOWELL It's extremely important for the community to know where mitigation funds are being spent and to see...
ANGELA MONIOT The soybean complex was the first commodity to feel the index funds presence, but wheat and corn are...
JOE VICTOR Inflows to international equity funds in 2005 exceeded those to U.S. equity funds. Global diversific...
AVI NACHMANY Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to o...
JACK REED If PCI is not going to use these funds, they should be returned to their rightful owners, Pennsylvan...
JACK WAGNER The currencies of science are discoveries and ideas; the rewards are the excitement of going where n...
JOHN SULSTON Registered funds have opened up hedge funds to a broad audience.
JOHN KELLY He's not getting the kind of diversification he thinks because they're all in large company growth, ...
FRANK ARMSTRONG A growing percentage of trading closed-end funds is occurring electronically and away from the excha...
BRUCE AUST People give to every campus fund. We have several funds: beautification, scholarship, and general fu...
BILL MULSO The local board is responsible for recommending agencies to receive these funds and any additional f...
HELEN HEMMES Japan funds are on fire.
KUNAL KAPOOR Those funds have to be appropriated by Congress and then they are funneled down to the states.
ELIZABETH CASTRO To a large extent where the markets go is predicated on the positions by funds in the markets.
DAVID RINEHIMER These are considered funds of last resort. Within that framework, we can be creative with how the fu...
CAM HUNTER The actions of a small minority in operating slush funds and operating secret loans have overshadowe...
IAN DAVIDSON Balanced funds try to be the best of everything,
JASON KELLY That's not to say there won't always be pressure points in the selling of mutual funds and other pro...
BARRY BARBASH We try to provide funds that are needed.
JACQUE DEAN People are thinking he's going to drive funds higher than is currently priced into the market. He's ...
ALAN ROSE People are thinking he's going to drive funds higher than is currently priced into the market. He's ...
ALAN DE ROSE Next year's budget - not the one presently presented, but the one after it - is going to be a crisis...
IRENE RUBIN There is a small window of opportunity of one to two decades -- the demographic dividend period -- i...
YU XIAOQING It's a huge infusion of funds and I would like to see the funds go directly into affordable housing ...
PETER SIMPSON The best thing to do is donate funds, ... The problem that exists is there's no where to store any d...
SALVATION ARMY The gas cap in itself has created volatility and anybody thinks that's good has got to be out of the...
BILL GREEN But without some additional funds, we're still going to have a problem.
KATHY MITCHELL We are not doing a food drive this year, but all of our funds are going to The Salvation Army's in L...
HEATHER TAYLOR The taxes on businesses are generating substantial funds.
DAVID PENN This is geared for those women who want to give birth to their child. ... There ought to be at least...
JOE POJMAN There is conversation that over the next ten years, hedge funds would become like mutual funds, ... ...
CHARLES GRADANTE The strikes and good economic indicators from China are supporting this round of the rally. The posi...
GU YUAN Nobody is paying attention to any fundamental news. The funds are still piling in.
ANGUS MACMILLAN Those funds can be spent wherever there is a need.
DIANE PHILLIPS Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested i...
LALU PRASAD YADAV The district is in need of these funds.
PAUL MUELLER It's no secret we've been looking to strengthen the museum, our collection, and raise scholarship fu...
DAVE MCCARTHY The growth of hedge funds is so intense and so big that we have nowadays hedge funds focused on cert...
JEFFERSON DUARTE When people bought these funds, they bought them because they wanted me to manage the funds, not the...
DONALD YACKTMAN The double layer of fees annoy people, and, coupled with underperformance, there was a more compelli...
VLADIMIR BELINSKY So far in 2005, inflows to international equity funds have matched those of U.S. equity funds.
AVI NACHMANY No one fund family has all the best types of funds. One fund family might be good with domestic equi...
LOU STANASOLOVICH This galvanizes the Christian community. People I'm talking to say we're going to be raising a whole...
WILLIAM DEMBSKI When a group of funds attracts so much money in new flows that the funds are forced to close, that's...
DAN LEFKOVITZ Mutual funds, which are responsible for the retirement investments of millions of investors, should ...
ALISA GRAVITZ I preach to my customers, when selling you want to be early rather than late. Because when funds dec...
JASON WARD We had a property on Belmont Road, where Hawkeye is now located and we put it up for sale and used t...
ROY MITCHELL The yield curve has narrowed. Some money market funds are now yielding more than 4%. At that rate, t...
GARY SCHLOSSBERG Given the reality of the contemporary retail market, it seems sensible to permit the marketing of fu...
CLIVE BRIAULT The market is basically strong but there seems to be a lack of funds and some people are turning aro...
CARLOS LEVORIN The market is basically strong but there seems to be a lack of funds and some people are turning aro...
CARLOS AUGUSTO LEVORIN Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.
PAUL SINGER We are going to see a slow fading away of some of the funds in the bottom half of the performance ra...
ALAN PARDEE Wireless is where the action is and this is a great time to be a wireless start-up in search of vent...
LYNNE GREGG There are no signs that funds have lost appetite. As long as you have a list of problems, funds will...
ANGUS MACMILLAN There were two qualities about the mutual funds of the 1920s that made them extremely speculative. O...
RON CHERNOW This could cost higher education billions of dollars. There is a question on where the funds would c...
CASS CLIATT A lot of these funds are just going to end up in the hands of very politically active groups to come...
JEB HENSARLING Sanctions will be related to a region's general allocation funds.
ANGGITO ABIMANYU The funds are trying to break out from a very crowded marketplace.
BURT GREENWALD Fundamentals are just taking a back seat at the moment (to funds).
ANGUS MACMILLAN The right algorithm is to put off seeking funds for as long as physically possible. And in an ideal ...
GUY KAWASAKI The funds have been provided for testing, but Connecticut apparently wants to keep those funds witho...
SUSAN ASPEY These funds are important to ensure the full economic and cultural recovery of the coast.
JENNY MANLEY We have a lot of ideas forming and brainstorming, and we're going to apply for the funds next semest...
SUSIE HIBBELER I think federal funds will be very limited.
CARLOS MARIN All the funds are commingled, and you get your percentage of the increase.
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AMBROSE BIERCE OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was onc...
AMBROSE BIERCE Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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