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In November, media outlets began reporting that Harvard was looking to sell billions of dollars in private equity holdings at drastically reduced prices, and in December, the University sold $2.5 billion in bonds in order to raise cash, refinance short-term debt, and terminate certain investment agreements. (Mendillo has stated...
Mendillo partly attributed the endowment’s underperformance to “complications” within the portfolio existing before the financial crisis, including “recent over-sized commitments to illiquid asset classes; within asset classes, a larger proportion of strategies with long holding periods; [and] a...
“For Harvard, as for almost every major investor, regaining the market value lost as a result of the recent global economic crisis will take time,” Mendillo wrote.
“I think the [economic] crisis is a call to arms [because] you can’t do business in the same way anymore,” Paulus says. “It makes you think about how to make the most out of what you?...
“We have Paleolithic emotions, Middle Age institutions, and god-like technologies and we will be facing a point of crisis in the coming decades,” Wilson said. “We have to answer huge questions of philosophy that philosophers abandoned decades ago?...