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...example, if Harvard sold all of its Korea Equity Fund shares on the New York Stock Exchange on July 31, it would have netted $18.6 million. But the net value of the fund’s assets per share was slightly higher, so liquidating the fund on that date would conceivably have generated $19.7 million before costs, based on unaudited numbers from the website of Nomura Asset Management, which manages the fund...
...have centered on closed-end funds and other foreign investments in which the University has held large stakes (see sidebar, “Super-Size Me,” p. 7). The international nature of these holdings has closely tied them to one of Harvard’s outside asset managers, Sowood Capital Management, and its principal, Jeffrey B. Larson...
Last spring, Sowood filed a statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on the University’s behalf, urging shareholders to support a Harvard proposal that the fund be liquidated and severed from Nomura Asset Management, its investment manager. Liquidating the fund would distribute its underlying investments to shareholders...
...Summers Neglected CID, Says Ex-Chief,” news, Sep. 14) conveys the false impression that I left because of disagreement with Larry Summers or because there is no commitment at Harvard to the study of development. To the contrary, I think Larry Summers is a tremendous asset for the university and for those who care about global poverty at Harvard...
Elsewhere, Wadhwaney has been snapping up shares in a Taiwan venture-capital firm, Hotung Investment Holdings, which trades at less than half the value of its net tangible assets--because the Taiwanese tech sector was crushed. He also likes BIL International, a Singapore-listed company that owns thousands of acres in Hawaii that it may or may not succeed in developing, a hotel chain in London and oil and gas royalties from the Bass Strait. The stock trades for at least 30% less than its value by his "ultraconservative" appraisal. Then there's Liu Chong Hing Investments, which owns...