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...Having gone through rehab after the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the region's financial institutions went into the current Great Recession with robust balance sheets that they can now leverage up by acquiring the assets that Western banks are shedding. China's banks are in a particularly sweet spot. Grown fat on years of sizzling GDP growth, Bank of China (2008 profit: $9.7 billion) has a leverage ratio of only...
...left years earlier. In 2005, HMC’s legendary CEO Jack R. Meyer left the company with 30 other employees in tow to start his own hedge fund after enduring heated criticism for what some saw as excessive company compensation. Meyer, a 15-year veteran of HMC, had grown the endowment from $4.7 billion to $26 billion, achieving an annualized average return rate of 15.9 percent over his last decade there. He was succeeded by Mohamed A. El-Erian, an emerging markets bond expert and former economist for the International Monetary Fund, who rebuilt HMC’s internal...
...Jaeger, then, a patient respect for the administration isn’t just a flavor-of-the-month strategy: it’s a proven method, with the weight of decades behind it. It’s the reason why HUCTW has survived and grown to the size it has: approximately 4,800 strong, with staffers hailing from every niche of the University. It is, in short, one of the core missions of the union. “There are two things we care a lot about: one is to be strong advocates for the interest of the staff...
...garnered a reputation as a radical leftist. Over the years, Carens and a core group of about 10 HUCTW members—collectively known as “Reform HUCTW”—have waged public counter-attacks against the University. The battle cry has grown even stronger in a time of marked financial strain...
...dust settles after campus-wide uproar following Smith’s announcement last month of deep budget cuts amounting to $77 million, faculty, students, and staff have grown increasingly concerned about the next step—which promises to have an even greater impact...