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...billion endowment on a per-capita basis. Under increasing scrutiny, Harvard and other wealthy universities have defended their sub-five percent payout rates as necessary to build a cushion against periods of financial downturn. Several of Harvard’s schools are heavily dependent on endowment money to fund their operating budgets. While some Harvard schools, like the School of Public Health, draw most operating revenue through grants and tuition, others, such as the Faculties of Arts and Sciences and the Divinity School rely heavily on endowment income. Those two schools drew 46 and 66 percent of their operating expenditures...
...year. Financial markets have declined dramatically in the past 12 months as the effects of high rates of home loan defaults tore through the economy, wiping out billions in capital. Among the first casualties of the distress on Wall Street was Sowood Capital Management, a Boston-based hedge fund founded by ex-Harvard investment managers, that folded last July and took $350 million of Harvard’s money with it. Despite this early blow, Harvard Management Company, which invests the University’s endowment, credited its practice of monitoring external investments with keeping total returns in the black...
...part Wizard of Oz obliterated the enthusiasm gap in the media and among voters. The "Yes we can" excitement that Democrats have enjoyed all election season is getting a run for its money. Palin--by prompting a flood of donations (see Momentum, Party Unity and Enthusiasm) and hitting the fund-raising circuit--has helped diminish what was expected to be a major Democratic cash advantage. But the controversial Alaska governor inspired substantial giving to her opposition as well...
About 80% of Frannie's debt securities remain in the U.S. The PIMCO Total Return Fund, the biggest bond mutual fund, had its best day ever the Monday after the announcement, rising 1.32%. Fund manager Bill Gross had put two-thirds of its assets in mortgage-backed securities while using the bully pulpit of his widely read monthly commentaries to call for bolder action to help housing...
Second, we need to invest in grass-roots ideas, because the "next great innovation" usually doesn't come from government. So I'll create a Social Investment Fund Network and bring together faith-based organizations and foundations to expand successful programs across the country...