These shares may be overpriced, so making underperformance more likely; but if the fund does underperform, it is a lot less embarrassing to meet sponsors with a fistful of Microsoft shares than with shares in unknown firms.Psychology may explain some losers.
From claims he is a "cancer" in the dressing room to his persistent underperformance with the bat, this tour has been a shrieking, knives-out disaster for Watto.
This will allow us to address underperformance and safeguarding in English schools long before they make their way to Whitehall.
They have a 58p price target on ITV, arguing it offers an "attractive valuation case" and that underperformance by the shares provides buying opportunity.
This good news is likely to be reflected in the share price after a period of underperformance.
Sheffield is a strikingly friendly city: you don't feel like a little fish in an inconceivably big pond, like so many of my friends who went to university in London did, and that is perhaps a contributing factor towards the underperformance of London universities in this survey.
Analyst Andrew Baum has moved his recommendation from underweight to equal weight with a £13.20 price target, following a 12% underperformance by the company so far this year compared to the rest of the European pharmaceutical sector.
Seeking to explain the UK's underperformance further, it adds: Weak export performance and productivity could be driven by infrastructure weaknesses and difficult access to bank finance, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), holding back the emergence of new firms and high-skilled jobs".
Some believe it is the first step in what will be a radical shake-up of the university monitoring process, prompted by the underperformance of some small private providers and further education colleges.
Yellen may talk about the slack jobs report of earlier this month, the lower (6.6%) unemployment rate, the purported underperformance of the stock market in 2014, the Fed's plan for its asset purchases program or any number of other topics.
In addition, we believe Tesco's underperformance in the UK restricts Morrison's future growth prospects.
