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This ransom is a big one--and likely to be the benchmark for future environmental payoffs involving private timberland. In return for 3,500 acres of ancient redwoods in Humboldt County's Headwaters Grove, the largest old-growth tract still in private hands, and 4,000 acres of additional land, most of it heavily logged, Maxxam Corp. of Houston, Pacific Lumber's owner, will get $250 million from the Federal Government and $210 million from California. At week's end there seemed little doubt that Governor Pete Wilson would sign the payment bill. Maxxam, controlled by Hurwitz, was a major...
...terrific year when we outperform the benchmark by one point or more," said HMC President Jack R. Meyer. "I don't think it's realistic to expect any institutional fund to do that over more than one year...
Rising with the sustained bull market, Harvard's returns have outperformed HMC's benchmark by 3 percent or more over the past five years. Last year's returns, however, declined from 25.8 percent in 1997 and 26 percent...
...performed the strongest in domesticequities, where Harvard's investments returned38.5 percent versus a benchmark of 29.3 percent...
Following on the heels of five consecutive years of higher-than expected endowment growth, the drop over the last two-and-a-half month period was 3 percentage points below HMC's benchmark. The group forecasted a drop of only 7 percent...