tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461044.post225037480086180492..comments2023-10-24T11:03:41.388-05:00Comments on ladypoverty: We, the large institutional investors and our corporate clientsJ.R. Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076895859826581960noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461044.post-827050265927916662010-03-27T15:50:17.671-05:002010-03-27T15:50:17.671-05:00Thanks -- good stuff.Thanks -- good stuff.JRBhttp://ladypoverty.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461044.post-10883435934660707212010-03-20T18:24:21.917-05:002010-03-20T18:24:21.917-05:00It reminds me of the passage in Lenin's Tomb b...It reminds me of the passage in Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick. About how in the USSR the muckity mucks could be corupt but there was a proper way to go about it. Happily included in <a href="http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/oppenheimer/100/remnicknyrb.html" rel="nofollow">this large excerpt</a>:<br /><br />It seems that Kunayev's wife was jealous after learning that the wife of the Magadan Party secretary had been given as a gift an extremely expensive Japanese tea service. Magadan, a former labor camp center in the Far East, had unique access to Japanese goods, but Mrs. Kunayev would not be soothed. She had to have these cups and saucers. Party etiquette did not allow Kunayev simply to order the tea set from Japan or even Siberia. That was somehow too obvious. Even dispatching an aide to Tokyo was deemed unseemly.<br /><br />"A way had to be found, of course," Vaksberg writes. "And such was its originality and refinement that it deserves its own little page in the history of the Soviet mafia."<br /><br />(continues at link - the entire book is great)cbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461044.post-27726584555848959112010-03-20T09:34:15.290-05:002010-03-20T09:34:15.290-05:00Indeed, these pension funds should be administrate...Indeed, these pension funds should be administrated by independent funds that look solely after the interests of the later beneficiaries, IF the contributions are made by them (deducted from their payroll); however, if the fund is fnded by the employer directly, it is a different matter. So employees should try to arrange the contributions to come out of THEIR pay before one can expect fund managers to vote.CrisisMavenhttp://crisismaven.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com