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- From: yee@mipgsun.mipg.upenn.edu (Conway Yee)
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- Subject: Re: Time Warner stock
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- Date: 22 Jul 92 16:55:22 GMT
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- brendan@cs.widener.edu writes:
- >Was the decision to sell the stock in Time Warner owned by
- >Philadelphia's municipal pension fund a good one? (They voted
- >yesterday to sell $1.6M in Time Warner stock because of Ice-T's album
- >"Body Count", which has the song "Cop Killer" on it.) What sort of
- >precedent does it set? I'm afraid that other similar groups will
- >start to use the "objectionable" watermark as their metric for whom
- >they should and should not fund. Was it wise?
-
- Well, It is probably too late wrt setting a precedence. This decision
- you mentioned is already following earlier precedents. Specifically,
- many groups sold their stocks in companies doing business in South
- Africa because of apartheid.
-
- From a fiscal point of view, the decision was a bad one. The key
- parameter to investment is profitability when you decide to sell the
- stock and the dividends received from owning the stock. On the other
- hand, people can do absolutely whatever they want with their
- money--including making bad investment decisions. As long as they do
- not come to me (as a taxpayer) for a bailout when their bad investment
- decisions causes the pension fund to collapse, I don't care.
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