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...budgetary plans have yet to be laid out, in part because University officials do not yet have a full report of the state of its endowment. In the interview, Faust declined to comment on the performance of the endowment??€”the largest in higher education—noting that the University discloses its investment returns once per year...
...budgetary plans have yet to be laid out, in part because University officials do not yet have a full report of the state of its endowment. In the interview, Faust declined to comment on the performance of the endowment??€”the largest in higher education—noting that the University discloses its investment returns once per year...
...Harvard Management Company—the group charged with investing the University’s $36.9 billion endowment??€”is planning to unload $1.5 billion of its riskiest assets, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. The Journal’s article followed similar reports from the trade publication Private Equity Week, which said the company would sell $1 billion of its private equity portfolio. A $1.5 billion sale of its private equity holdings—nearly a third of Harvard’s investments in that sector—would mark one of the largest-ever sales...
...Conservatives try to paint the NEA (pun intended) and its benefactors as the peace, love, and naked calligraphy crowd—ridiculous, immoral, and totally out of touch with normal Americans—ignoring the Endowment??€™s bipartisan past. It was Theodore Roosevelt (Class of 1880) who established the first arts-oriented federal advisory board, the Council of Fine Arts, and Dwight D. Eisenhower who created a national cultural center for the performing arts, which 13 years and a cultural revolution later opened its doors as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts...
Harvard Management Company—the group in charge of investing the University’s $36.9 billion endowment??€”may be trying to unload a large portion of its riskiest assets, according to a recent article in the trade publication Private Equity Week. The article reported that HMC has hired Cogent Investment Bank to sell approximately $1 billion of its private equity portfolio on the secondary market. As of June 30, HMC’s planned allocation to private equity for 2009 was up to 13 percent of the University’s endowment, or just under...