Page 8 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1977
Undergrads boast
over 100 clients
in brokerage
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A clut
tered office above the hustle and
bustle of Harvard Square is an un
likely place to find a stock brokerage
firm. But three Harvard under
graduates say their one-year-old
business is beginning to prove suc
cessful.
About one year ago, Bill Dillon,
20, John Christian, 21, and Alfred
Lewis, 20, — all economics majors
enrolled in a basic stock course —
got to chatting about doubling and
tripling what little money they had
through stock dealings.
This month, they list 100 investors
as individual clients plus 40 others in
an investment club.
They said half of Bill Dillon and
Co. s clients are college students and
the remainder businessmen, with a
sprinkling of Harvard professors and
administrators.
Housed in a three-room office
above an ice cream store in the
middle of traffic-clogged Harvard
Square, Bill Dillon and Co. looks
more like a college dorm — which it
was several decades ago — than a
business establishment.
Athletic equipment and Playboy
magazines are scattered in a back
room. Reams of papers, filing
cabinets and stacks of economics
books are strewed throughout the
front office.
The telephone jangles every sev
eral minutes and people dressed in
blue jeans and hiking boots and car
rying backpacks leisurely wander in
and out of the office.
Lacing his conversation with
quotes from Shakespeare and listen
ing to several conversations at once.
Lewis said they took six tests be
tween them to get the required
licenses to open their business.
“We met each other in a basic
stock course a couple years ago and
started talking about what stocks we
had and how we had doubled our
money in several weeks or months,”
said Lewis.
“That’s how we got our initial capi
tal to start. We wrote to stock
brokerage firms asking them to send
us prospect uses.
“We wanted to find out more
about the mechanics of the business
and we found out we knew more
than 90 per cent of the brokers we
talked to,” said Lewis.
Dillon said the firm only follows
and recommends a handful of stocks
— all small, over-the-counter and
undervalued.
“We believe we should only rec
ommend stocks we’ve thoroughlj
researched and know inside anil
out,” said Dillon.
“A few months ago, we were dis
appointed with the way things were
going. Now, we can’t keep track of
our clients,” said Dillon.
Lewis said Dillon was the com
pany’s “whiz on options; you could
say I’m the expert on common stocks
and John’s the researcher.”
Lewis said the company was “Hi.
ture oriented.”
“We’ll take somebody with $100
now and give him the big account
treatment, knowing there’s a good
chance he’ll be big money in several
years,” he said.
Lewis said the business is growing
each month, but they will make time
to continue to graduate business
school.
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