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...stock market crash, will step down on Jan. 31. By then, many believe he'll have finished his nearly two-year campaign of boosting short-term interest rates from the historic lows reached after the Internet bubble burst in 2000. If so, Bernanke would take the helm with the benchmark fed funds rate at about 4.5%, considered neutral in terms of growth, leaving him with plenty of immediate operating room-and just possibly a stock market finally getting some lift...
...Chairman Alan Greenspan said Monday. That's not the sound of a central banker about to start sitting on his thumbs. The Fed has been raising short-term rates for a couple years-from a fed funds rate of 1% to 3.75%. Economists expect him to keep boosting the benchmark rate to about 4.5% next year...
...between internal and external money management.University President Lawrence H. Summers defended the firm’s compensation plan when asked about HMC’s ability to attract top talent in an interview Friday. HMC compensates its managers based on their portfolio’s performance relative to a benchmark that measures market performance.“The board has discussed this issue, and the board is completely committed to continuing to provide compensation for outstanding performance at HMC at levels that will enable us to attract the most talented people,” Summers said.Some members of the Harvard...
Nearly every asset class outperformed its internal benchmark, investment goals set by the management company’s board based on market performance. Domestic and foreign bonds, traded by two fund managers who left Friday with Meyer, were once again out in front. Private equity, high-yield assets, and commodities also did exceptionally well...
Nearly every asset class outperformed its internal benchmark with domestic and foreign bonds once again out in front. But Harvard’s two chief bond managers, David R. Mittelman and Maurice Samuels, are leaving with Meyer today and have also not been replaced...