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We put together this 25-page book of essentially our ideas on how we would go about doing the project, and we submitted that to the Department of Energy.

Christopher Davis

 Books And Reading

Conventional wisdom holds that investors should hold bonds in tax-protected vehicles like IRAs and stocks in their taxable accounts.

Christopher Davis

 

They were stealing change and CDs, maybe some credit cards, when they stumbled onto these things. I imagine it opened their eyes up a little bit.

Christopher Davis

 Cards

I think that in the high-tech area there were obvious areas of tremendous excess, and yet, of course, it's one of the great growth engines of the economy. Every investor thinking about the long term wants to own growth, but you have to buy it at a sensible price. And in the tech area, there are wonderful concepts, wonderful ideas, great productivity drivers, but still many overpriced issues,

Christopher Davis

 

It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.

Christopher Davis

 

[In addition, some money managers have come to believe that options have not lived up to their billing. The idea was that options would align top executives' interests with those of the shareholders. But they also give executives incentive to use questionable techniques to lift the stock -- often a short-term boost so they can cash out.] The trouble with options, ... is that they allow management to get rich even if shareholders do lousy.

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I believe he still knows where they are and may still have access to them somehow, ... They're going to be so hot now I can't imagine anybody wanting them.

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Portfolio manager Bob Smith has been in charge since 1997 and is a very smart, capable investor who won't throw caution to the wind,

Christopher Davis

 

I really do have to sit down and make decision and it's hard to do. It's like I'm putting the city that I love behind us.

Christopher Davis

 

I would encourage people to get a copy of the book. It's a good book to have.

Christopher Davis

 Books And Reading