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Putnam Fired by Wal-Mart
Bloomberg ^
| 11/21/2003
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Posted on 11/21/2003 2:28:10 PM PST by groanup
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Putnam Investments, the Boston-based money manager that's suffered more than $9.2 billion in withdrawals by public pension funds this month, was fired by Wal- Mart Stores Inc. as manager of two funds in its 401(k) plans.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: mutualfunds; putnam; walmart
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posted on
11/21/2003 2:28:10 PM PST
by
groanup
To: groanup
Let me sum up the remainder of the thread:
"Wal Mart sucks!"
"No they don't, you stinkin' liberal commie symp!"
"Do too!"
"Do not!"
Repeat.
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posted on
11/21/2003 2:37:54 PM PST
by
TrappedInLiberalHell
(Ban Aural Sects! Stop listening to Scientology books on tape!)
To: TrappedInLiberalHell
Putnam needs to know how to spell F I D U C I A R Y.
To: TrappedInLiberalHell
LOL! Saved me a lot of reading!
To: TrappedInLiberalHell; groanup; hchutch
Wal-Mart Whiners and Bashers:
"This is an example of how unreasonable Wal-Mart is to its contractors, expecting them to obey SEC trading regulations."
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posted on
11/21/2003 2:55:36 PM PST
by
Poohbah
("Beware the fury of a patient man" -- John Dryden)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
"Putnam needs to know how to spell F I D U C I A R Y."
Putnam (and the rest of them) had better learn how to spell E T F.
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posted on
11/21/2003 2:57:57 PM PST
by
groanup
(Whom the market gods humble they first make proud.)
To: groanup
I have all I have in Strong. I'm watching verrrry carefully.
To: Poohbah
Hey, I don't have a dog in this fight, I was just making a joke. I once dared to say how I don't enjoy the experience of shopping at a Wal Mart, and a normally nice, reasonable poster jumped all over me. Can't win, sometimes.
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posted on
11/21/2003 3:06:08 PM PST
by
TrappedInLiberalHell
(Ban Aural Sects! Stop listening to Scientology books on tape!)
To: TrappedInLiberalHell
Hey, I was making a joke too...didn't know you disliked Wal-Mart.
I have actually heard financial-services types say that expecting traders to obey the law is unreasonable.
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posted on
11/21/2003 3:15:08 PM PST
by
Poohbah
("Beware the fury of a patient man" -- John Dryden)
To: TrappedInLiberalHell
I once left a firm for another and had a Putnam managed 401k. For months they gave me the run-around re: roll-over to another account. Finally filed a complaint in small business court for a date before the judge against Putman's CEO, by name too. Sent a copy of the complaint to him.
Check came FedEx the next day.
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posted on
11/21/2003 3:17:26 PM PST
by
Swanks
To: Poohbah
Hey, I was making a joke too...didn't know you disliked Wal-Mart. I was talking strictly about the shopping experience. I understand WHY it is the way it is -- narrow aisles, lots of people, it just doesn't appeal to me personally. I find Target to be a less stressful experience (and I realize that they're a different segment of the market). My point was that I wasn't commenting at all about whether Wal Mart was a bad/unethical/monopolistic business, and I STILL got slammed, as though it were my duty to like Wal Mart on principle alone, even if I didn't appreciate their physical implementation. For some reason Wal Mart causes even conservatives to choose sides and insult each other.
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posted on
11/21/2003 3:23:05 PM PST
by
TrappedInLiberalHell
(Ban Aural Sects! Stop listening to Scientology books on tape!)
To: groanup
The article doesn't state how much money Walmart has in the Putnam accounts. Since they're a public company, is this information available?
Also the article didn't state that they were pulling out their money, just eliminating Putnam as a choice for future employees. Course doing that is the next step.
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posted on
11/21/2003 3:48:34 PM PST
by
lelio
To: groanup
Putnam is a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies, tenant on floors 97 - 100 in the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Two hundred and ninety-five Marsh employees were killed on 9/11.
Two years later, Putnam drops over 9 billion.
Not a good start to the new millenium for the venerable insurance brokerage firm.
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posted on
11/21/2003 3:53:11 PM PST
by
beckett
To: groanup
I got involved with Putnam in a minor way back about 20 years ago, and I concluded that they were crooked back then.
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posted on
11/21/2003 4:01:23 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: groanup
No big deal, Walmart probably only has one or two employees with 401k's.
To: lelio
The article doesn't state how much money Walmart has in the Putnam accounts Noticed that too. Brings forth too conclusions:
1. they don't know, or
2. the number would rock Putnam into bankruptcy if it was known.
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posted on
11/21/2003 4:23:51 PM PST
by
imawit
To: imawit
or, its only one or two employees.
To: beckett
Sometimes we need to remember those who died in those towers. Probably some of their best people were at the top literally. Very sad.
To: lelio
"The article doesn't state how much money Walmart has in the Putnam accounts"
Dont't you understand? Sheesh!
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posted on
11/21/2003 7:59:21 PM PST
by
groanup
(Whom the market gods humble they first make proud.)
To: The Westerner
Sometimes we need to remember those who died in those towers. Probably some of their best people were at the top literally. Very sad.I know for a fact that they did lose many of their very best people, many of them high ranking officers in the firm.
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posted on
11/21/2003 8:00:57 PM PST
by
beckett
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