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Windows 3.1 was a great product yet it benefited from a close collaboration with IBM. While Intel and others now produce great efficiencies in terms of lower prices and higher quality products, and suffer the short-term financial consequences, Intel's sales were up only 6 percent in the last quarter, Microsoft is fighting to feed a pyramid scheme whose base has become too wide and therefore is raising prices and igniting false inflation.

Tom Abate, Chronicle Staff Writer Friday, May 14, 2010 The 1,205 California companies backed by private equity firms employ an estimated 1.2 million Californians, according to a report from a trade group representing the largest of these buyout entities. The Private Equity Council also estimates that 10.9 million Americans work for 9,473 companies run by the more than 1,500 such investment firms nationwide. Private equity firms combine capital from general partners with investments from limited partners, such as pension funds, and use this capital to buy, reorganize and resell companies.

This makes now an excellent time to have Parish & Company review your portfolio and determine if it is balanced, consists of high quality investments and is squarely focused upon income generation and your goals rather than your investment firms goals.

For example, Catalent Pharma Solutions is a Blackstone-owned company that files its own 10K with the SEC.

The report said: “The fact that large institutional investors cast the great majority of proxy votes … and reportedly place less emphasis than small institutions on research and recommendations could limit the overall influence advisory firms have on proxy voting results.” Nevertheless, concerns have persisted.

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