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- <text id=93TT1014>
- <title>
- Feb. 22, 1993: Bursting at The Seams
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 22, 1993 Uncle Bill Wants You
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 20
- BUSINESS
- Bursting at The Seams
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- <body>
- <p>Reluctantly, mutual-fund managers shut the door on new money
- </p>
- <p> Every Wall Street executive dreams of drowning in cash. For
- an increasing number of mutual-fund managers, the fantasy has
- become reality--but an unwanted one. Inundated with $300 billion
- worth of new investments since 1990, many mutual funds, including
- the Fidelity Low-Priced Stock Fund and Janus Venture, have temporarily
- stopped accepting new investors. "There have been closings of
- funds before, but never so many," says Erick Kanter, vice president
- of the Investment Company Institute, a money-fund trade group.
- "Managers need time to plot their investment strategies." The
- steep growth of mutual funds, which reached a record value of
- $1.7 trillion last year, began in earnest in 1989.
- As interest rates began dropping, profit-hungry investors moved
- away from low yielding certificates of deposit and treasury
- bonds to where the action is. Most of the enormous outflow wound
- up in professionally managed pools of securities, where annual
- returns of 25% or more are not uncommon.
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- </body>
- </article>
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