Finding a way to it, through lavish acts of patriotism or patronage, becomes for some a mission more compelling than money.
It was not abstract theory that provided the justification for the index fund, but the compelling evidence that money managers as a group cannot beat the market; they must lose to the market by the amount of the fees and costs charged by active fund managers.Gross return in the stockmarket, minus the costs of investing, equals the net return that investors as a group must share.
Another compelling reason is money.
What's compelling among these money managers is their intensity in educating themselves about nations and bottom-up individual investment opportunities.
I donated eggs because I found the experience compelling, and the money convincing, which is not an unselfish act... My Catholicism taught me that I should be a mother, preferably multiple times.
One of his most intriguing and compelling characters, the money-lender Gobseck in the eponymous story, describes himself as you imagine Balzac might: "Do you think it's nothing, this power to see into the most secret recesses of the human heart, to engage another person's heart, to see it all stripped naked?
"The difference in money was compelling," Tellem said.
It's the variety of scenarios and tight mechanics that make Blood Money so compelling.
Timothy F. Geithner, the United States Treasury secretary, said Mr. Zoellick had "made a strong and compelling case" for the money that was approved.
If we've all done tugging our forelocks before The King's Speech, here's something rather stronger and, for my money, more compelling.
