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Investments in foreign bonds also performed well, returning 32.4 percent against a 15.6 percent benchmark, along with absolute returns, which increased 10.2 percent against a 4 percent benchmark decline...
Real estate was the only area in which Harvard performed lower than its benchmark, with a one percent decline against a benchmark increase of 4.8 percent...
Emerging markets investments—which include Brazil, Mexico, Taiwan and China—increased 7.5 percent against a benchmark of 1.9 percent...
...display, which features photographs, essays and quotations about Israeli presence in the disputed territories, is intended to use the second anniversary of the intifada “as a benchmark to talk about why [it’s] going on,” said Rita Hamad ’03, one of the display’s creators and the former president...
...Roberts used to think the droughts of the Great Depression were the benchmark for tough times. Now he and other old-timers in Scottsbluff, Neb., a small farming community near the Wyoming border, are talking about the scant 2.16 in. of rain that has fallen this year--30% less than what fell during the worst of the 1930s drought years and more than 80% below normal. When it comes to water, local farmers are living through their greatest depression...