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...yard freestyle, sophomore Katy Hinkle in the 100-yard backstroke, and freshman Meghan Leddy in the 200-yard backstroke—with all of those victories coming in school-record time. The Crimson also won the 200-yard and 800-yard freestyle relays, setting a new school benchmark in the latter. “[The 800-yard relay] was a really great performance,” Clarke said. “I think that was the first time [we’ve] ever won that race. It’s definitely the first time that we’ve beat...
...India's benchmark stock index on Monday surged a stunning 17%, a record one-day gain powered by investor euphoria over a resounding victory in nationwide elections by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Congress Party...
...listed on the filings. External investment firms currently manage 70 percent of the endowment. According to its 2008 year-end financial report, emerging market equity made up 10 percent of the University’s portfolio and returned 7.6 percent as of June 30, beating the HMC board-approved benchmark of 4.8 percent for the asset class.The year-end report noted that Harvard uses both internal and external managers, as well as international private equity funds, to oversee its emerging market equity, and listed as one policy change for the coming fiscal year “a need to think...
...stole the show in the opener, pitching her 14th complete game of the season for an eight-hit victory. But it was her routine first-inning strikeout of the Big Green’s Nikki Yee that put Brown in the Harvard record books, setting a new single-season benchmark for strikeouts. She finished the day with 10 on the afternoon and 192 on the season.“It’s an awesome feeling, but I think it’s definitely overshadowed by what the team’s doing, and I think that?...
...whole—which include liquid commodities, real estate, and timber and agricultural land—represented 26 percent of the endowment in 2008, according to a Harvard financial statement. Last year, the real estate portfolio provided returns of 3.2 percent—beating the HMC board-approved benchmark of 2.4 percent. Cummings, a Chicago and Dartmouth graduate, said in the University statement that he was “honored to be joining such a world-class group of investment managers,” and that he looked forward to furthering Harvard’s educational and research mission. Cummings...