Pension Fund Quotes

#1. The whole concept of dividing it up into 'value' and 'growth' strikes me as twaddle. It's convenient for a bunch of pension fund consultants to get fees prattling about and a way for one advisor to distinguish himself from another. But, to me, all intelligent investing is value investing.

Charlie Munger

#2. Even the nuns went racist after the convent was reappraised and it seemed their pension fund was in jeopardy.

George Saunders

#3. White criminals commit the biggest crimes.a brother might rob a bank. a white man will rob a pension fund. the brother is going to get ten to fifteen years because he had a gun. the white guy is going to get a congressional hearing because he had a job and a nice suit.

Wanda Sykes

#4. For though there was no chance of persuading a pension fund manager looking to make a longer-term loan to buy a Freddie Mac bond that could evaporate tomorrow, one could easily sell him the third tranche of a CMO.

Michael Lewis

#5. You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund

Ben Elton

#6. [The US] budget is dominated by the retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare - loosely speaking, the post-cold-war federal government is a big pension fund that also happens to have an army.

Paul Krugman

#7. Any pension fund manager who doesn't have the vast majority-and I mean 70% or 80% of his or her portfolio-in passive investments is guilty of malfeasance, nonfeasance or some other kind of bad feasance!

Merton Miller

#8. An irresistable footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices they couldn't buy enough of them. In 1974, after the bottom had fallen out, they committed a then record low of 21% to stocks.

Warren Buffett

#9. But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey.

Jimmy Hoffa

#10. I love you the way a drowning man loves air. And it would destroy me to have you just a little.

Rae Carson

#11. I've done well over time but made lots of mistakes, too. Learn from your mistakes.

Kenneth Fisher

#12. Tell me something wicked.

Julia Quinn

#13. I don't invest in the stock market, but I have pension funds - some in America and the UK.

Eric Idle

#14. I'd rather have sex than dessert.

Mary J. Williams

#15. If I put down my tweeter machine for a minute, I actually can communicate with people. As an aside, astonishingly, I just started doing Twitter.

Nick Offerman

#16. Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror.

Frank Gaffney

#17. Why do you want to die?'
I shivered. For a second I couldn't breathe.
'You knew ... ?'
She gave a sad smile.
'I'm your mother.

Mitch Albom

#18. I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.

Barry Sonnenfeld

#19. I feel like I have to do the best job I can to basically say, "OK, I understand - you have every right to be angry, but anger is not a plan. Here's what I want to do, and that's why I hope you will support me, because I think it will actually improve the lives of Americans."

Hillary Clinton