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Compensation of managers is based in large part on the performance of each financial manager's class of endowment funds--domestic and foreign securities, emerging markets, high-yield securities, etc.--relative to an internal benchmark, known as the Policy Portfolio...
Part of the decline in salaries is linked to the endowment's disappointing performance in 1995. The endowment performed .4 percent below the benchmark; in addition, bonuses paid because of exceptionally high performance in 1994--paid gradually over several years--are tapering off, according to Meyer...
With 1996's yield almost four points above the benchmark, compensations can be expected to rise this year. But Meyer said that HMC suffers somewhat of a political injustice because of its efforts to save money through internal management...
...endowment's return of 16.8 percent was more than nine points below the Standard and Poor's 500, a widely recognized benchmark of stock market performance...
...state that is fast shedding cases, Marquette's drop has been the steepest: down 91% in the past decade. And it's one of a handful of thinly populated counties that have got the number of "work-qualified" households on their welfare rolls down to a notable benchmark: zero...