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Harvard also decreased its exposure to a market drop by packing its portfolio with bonds and selling off some of its foreign stocks, Cabot said. At the end of the financial year, the portfolio contained 53 percent stocks and 26 percent bonds, but by October stock comprised less than 40...
Even so, a more competitive environment has other firms adopting similar methods. Major banks and corporations once sent most of their lucrative legal work to a single outside firm. In the 1970s, many began shifting basic chores to in-house legal staffs. When they do go outside these days, they...
Winning, whether it's in poker and craps or stocks and bonds, is simply a matter of coming out ahead of the other guy. Not exactly screwing him over, but, well, luring him into a situation he just can't win. And letting him screw himself.
Three heroines, living in London and in their mid-40s when the decade of the 1980s dawns, provide a focus for Drabble's tumultuous plot: Liz Headleand, twice married and a successful psychotherapist; Alix Bowen, ditto and a believer in socially useful work like teaching English literature to female criminals...
"Our strategy beforehand was conservative because the feeling was that there would be a correction," said Assistant for Endowment Operations and Gifts at Brown University, Ed Maharay. "During the course of the year we turned to bonds from equities because bonds would give us a higher return if there was...