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...percent increase made for the "best year ever" for Harvard's finances, according to Jack R. Meyer, the University's top money manager and was especially stunning because it far outpaced the 7.3 percent rise of the benchmark Standards & Poor 500 index...

Author: By Joshua E. Gewolb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Venture Capital, Internet Economy Send Endowment Soaring | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...increase exceeded by more than 100 percent the gains made by the index the University selects as a benchmark for its performance...

Author: By Joshua E. Gewolb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Venture Capital, Internet Economy Send Endowment Soaring | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...University's holdings in commodities rose 49.9 percent, largely as the result of rising oil and gas prices over the summer. Performance exceeded the benchmark by 14 percent...

Author: By Joshua E. Gewolb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Venture Capital, Internet Economy Send Endowment Soaring | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

Under the council's newly-formed relationship with the Coop, UC Books will set the Coop's used book price as the benchmark against which students can compare prices from other book websites...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New 'UC Books' Site Goes Online with Coop Prices, More Books | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...granddaddy of these so-called exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are SPDRS (called Spiders). Around since 1993, this security mimics the Standard & Poor's 500. Each share represents a fraction of a share of 500 companies. Your investment moves in lockstep with that well-known benchmark. Other popular ETFs include QQQs, known as Cubes and based on the NASDAQ 100, and Diamonds, based...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The ABCs of ETFs | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

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