You probably remember the hullabaloo last year when Deutsche Bank bought Bankers Trust. As part of the deal, Bankers Trust CEO Frank Newman got a jaw-dropper salary-and-bonus guarantee of $11 milli...
So much for Gordon Gekko. With CEOs taking the starring roles in megadeals these days, investment bankers have become the support team, more likely to be blocking and tackling than calling the play...
Buried in the legalese of a court case named Dukes v. U.S. Healthcare, a 1995 medical malpractice suit against an HMO, is a precedent that's sure to strike fear in the hearts of employers across th...
THIS MONTH: --Tips from an ex-broker --Why divorcing your spouse may be harder to do --Bob and Liddy Dole: They'll retire on $5.5 million
Fortune: RANKED BY PERFORMANCE updated: Mon May 30 1994 00:01:00
How good a year was it? Browse through the performance tables and count the ways. Two of the top three companies in sales growth are involved in medical care; both pushed up sales through acquisiti...
LIKE ANY executive running a billion-dollar company, Silicon Graphics CEO Ed McCracken has little time to lobby for causes. But one had him steamed enough to fly to Washington this summer to testif...
After a spectacular two-year run-up, medical stocks began sinking more than a year ago -- only to plunge this past winter when investors finally grasped the fact that Bill (and Hillary) Clinton wer...
-- Suppose the Republicans don't pull it together. Suppose President Bush, hamstrung by a sluggish economy, loses in the fall. While the stock market might heave and sway under a new Administration...
Small stocks have been going wild. Since October 1990 the little guys have scampered ahead 74%, more than double their bigger brethren. But some sage stock pickers are keeping their eye on another,...
THE BIGGEST and most successful of America's publicly held health maintenance organizations, U.S. Healthcare follows a formula you might have learned at your grandmother's knee, if your grandmother...
Stop looking at those bills as a one-way drain on your wallet. Think of them instead as a reason to invest in a fast-growing business that, other than HMOs, was barely a blip on the national oscill...
For the big corporations that grill Americans' burgers, ship their goods, steward their money, take them on trips, and provide them with places to shop, the 1990s began the way the 1980s ended -- d...
Sweet surprises: If you liked them as a kid, you'll love them as an investor. As earnings for the last quarter of 1990 roll out, betting on companies that surpass analysts' estimates can give you s...
Surprise! That's the secret of steep returns for at least one top-performing mutual fund. AIM CONSTELLATION, a highflier over the past five years, invests in companies that catch Wall Street analys...
With the market sputtering -- it was off 3% in 1990's first quarter -- and the economy refusing to flash clear signals, many stock fund managers have spent the past few months on the investment sid...
WHAT ARE NOW EQUAL to half of all pretax profits and rising fast? Answer: company health benefits. No wonder managers are desperate. And no wonder many of them are marveling at a plan adopted by on...
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