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...addition, another student group asked Yale President Richard C. Levin last Thursday to pledge that Yale will not divest from Israel. Levin has yet to respond...
Yale’s pro-divestment petition, pushed by the Yale Divest From Israel Campaign, alleges violations of the university’s own ethical investment policy—a policy stricter than that at Harvard and other rival universities. The campaign will pursue legal action if the administration ignores its petition, alumni spokesperson Rod Swenson said...
...retain DLJ staff - will weigh heavily on Credit Suisse's results. Mack is adamant the bank will not fall into the same trap again. "I can't run a firm," he says, "where employees and shareholders are not tied to the same objectives." One solution to the current dilemma? Divest major assets for a quick capital fix. But it's an issue of timing - as Mack puts it, "It would not make sense to sell." Moreover, before these businesses can be sold, says Peter Thorne, an analyst at Pictet & Cie, "they need fixing." Other analysts, noting bad investments in everything...
...doing so, the Yale Divest from Israel Campaign (YDIC) joins the ranks of 50 other university groups, including ones at Harvard and Princeton, that have formed a grass-roots divestment movement...
...grounded in guidelines dictated by Yale law professor John G. Simon’s 1972 book The Ethical Investor. When investments lead to social harm—especially when they violate human rights laws concerning the deprivation of health, safety and freedom—the policy mandates that Yale divest...