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...Medical School instructor Emily Oken, discovered that children whose mothers gained at least the recommended amount of weight during pregnancy were four times more likely to be overweight at age three, compared to those whose mothers gained less. The recommended weight gain for women with a normal body mass index (BMI) is 25 to 35 pounds. This number varies depending on the BMI of the expecting mother. The study is published in the April issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Oken and her research team monitored 1,044 pregnant women in the Boston area and compiled data...
...answer is not yet. Harvard has only divested its direct holdings in two Chinese oil companies: Petrochina and Sinopec. The focus of our campaign, however, is not Harvard’s indirect holdings in these companies. While we do want Harvard to divest from stocks, exchange traded funds, index funds, and other financial holdings when reasonable alternatives exist, the primary focus of our campaign is that Harvard divest from the worst offenders operating in the Sudan...
...advocates also say it strengthens regulations when warranted. Ernst & Young's index of AIM's oil and gas companies - around 7% of AIM's list - slid by 6% in 2006, a lingering reverberation from a series of shock announcements from energy firms that their reserves were dry. Last year the LSE began requesting such firms submit independent annual reports on their reserves...
...account, the HMC is potentially shorting shares of some of the companies in question (PetroChina, Sinopec, Petronas). In effect, this means that Harvard could own a negative number of shares in these companies. The Crimson also only reported indirect holdings through Exhange Treaded Funds (ETFs), such as the FXI index. However, the HMC also owns (and sells short) securities such as bonds, credit default swaps, and other derivative instruments, the trading of which directly impacts (for better or worse) the welfare of the companies in question. Second, these shares held by the Harvard Management Company are held only through Exchange...
...article. Our targeted divestment plan asks Harvard to divest only where reasonable alternatives with similar risk and returns currently exist. This includes: direct securities holdings (there are other Chinese and Malaysian oil companies who do not do business with the Sudanese government), exchange-traded fund holdings (these are index funds bought together to look like stocks, and there are many different exchange-traded funds which do not include the offending companies), and index fund holdings (at this point in time, nine asset management firms, including Barclays and State Street, have created “Sudan-free” index funds...