Morningstar senior fund analyst Daniel Culloton worries that this year's glut of new ETF issues is just filling a banquet table with a lot of junk food that investors don't really need.
One of the events that kicked off his campaign last fall filled a banquet hall in Mississauga, a Toronto suburb.
Then a blast from a trumpet, each glass filled; the banquet started at a prompt from the Lord of Misrule.
By Friday morning, just a day and a half after the explosion, the vast tangle of wreckage that had filled the banquet hall had been entirely removed.
Or as in the case of DEAD BOYS (Little, Brown, $21.99), a first collection by Richard Lange, they can be as filling as a banquet.
The union disputes that account, saying that the Boathouse had turned to an outside company to fill the entire banquet staff.
So Ms. Trumpetto was intrigued but somehow not surprised on Tuesday night when 350 officials from 170 different Hudson Valley nonprofit organizations took up every available parking spot at a local reception hall and filled a large banquet room on the Hudson, ice floes drifting by outside like frigid parade floats.
Last Thursday, more than 80 members and their guests filled the largest banquet room at the Oakmont Country Club.
March wanes, awards banquets fill the calendar, the Oscars approach and the big spring movies begin to fall into place.
The woman more or less threw Linney's at her, then directed her to a banquet room filled with reporters.
They are announced by trumpet and give an acceptance speech in a grand banquet hall filled with tuxedos, flowers, crystal, and gold.
