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...investment portfolio - which helps pay for priest pensions - continues to outperform the market. In March this year, London church officials hailed a yield of 13.6% for 2004, putting the fund in the top 3% of more than 700 similar British pension funds measured by the WM All Funds Universe benchmark. While Louis Henderson, spokesman for the Church Commissioners, is proud that the Church of England's portfolio is free of such sinful enterprises as pornography and gambling, he credits the recent high performance to a terrestrial treasure: real estate. "It is fortuitous that the portfolio is weighted more toward property...
...business with the Soviets because they have a reputation for making debt payments promptly, in contrast to shaky Latin American borrowers. The financiers offered Moscow an unusually good deal. Interest payments will be only one-quarter of a percentage point more than the London Interbank Offered Rate, an international benchmark that currently stands at 8.125%. The bankers are confident that they will not be criticized for giving the Soviets favorable terms. Reason: financially strapped U.S. farmers are in desperate need of boosting their grain sales to Moscow...
...Minneapolis-based Bill Stumpf, 50, chairs, especially office chairs, have been neither a sideline nor a flashy aesthetic afterthought. The Miesian, Eamesian, entirely worthy benchmark Stumpf set for himself years ago was "to make a beautiful chair comfortable." He accomplished that by drawing on more than a decade of careful thought about chairs--not just how they ought to look, but how officeworkers lean and squirm and relax while sitting in them. Stumpf's Ergon (1976) and Equa (1984) are the two most important chairs, surely, of the past quarter-century, handsome, generous and deeply elegant. They are also ubiquitous...
...their forecasts for Germany and France to only a tad in excess of 1% growth this year. Such differences create a dilemma for Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European central bank, the body that sets monetary policy for the entire euro zone. Economists say the bank's 2% benchmark interest rate is far too low for the strongest economies, providing them with plentiful cheap money and helping fuel both a credit boom and, especially in Spain, a potential housing bubble...
...came out of that race ready to take on the league,” Kummer said. “That was a benchmark week, and everyone realized...