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...this year, in the midst of a historic economic downturn (our cover story is on unemployment), when many people are struggling, we commissioned a poll to look at how people are serving these days. The most striking results centered not on volunteering but on the cash register. (See page 40.) Even as people acknowledged that times were tough, 38% of Americans 18 and older, some 86 million people, reported taking a number of socially conscious actions this year, including buying green products and goods from companies they thought had responsible values...
...report also supplies telling details about the brutal losses sustained by HMC since last July—losses that in many cases exceeded those of standard benchmarks. Possible investment policy missteps that exacerbated the effects of the global financial crisis on HMC, such as the maintenance of an insufficient cash reserve, are mentioned prominently as well...
...private equity, timber, and other commodities. Such investments added long-term value to the endowment and brought sustained growth in previous years, but also reduced the portfolio’s liquidity—meaning that the University’s assets became more difficult to sell and convert to cash on short notice...
Mandigo says there are merchant bankers, insurance companies and pension funds looking for places to park their cash that might view Hyatt as a smart investment. "This is something that's fresh, has a strong name behind it, and a good reputation in the industry," he says. "It's kind of like an oasis in the desert in terms of investment opportunity...
Moreland sees other market data flashing the same yellow light. "The uncertainty in [analysts'] forward-looking earnings estimates, and I've thought this all year, has been a reason to stay cautious in this market," he says, adding that he began raising cash two weeks ago in anticipation of a market decline. "It seems to me there's another phase we have to go through [in the financial crisis] and that has a huge amount of uncertainty surrounding it," he says...