Word: indexation
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...return and the 21.1 percent return achieved in 2004. While few peer universities have released their endowment figures for fiscal year 2006, Stanford reported a 19.4 percent return for the same period, beating Harvard’s by 2.7 percentage points. Both universities handily outpaced the S&P 500 index, which registered an 8.5 percent return over the same period. “The most important issue is, did we meet the University’s target, which is to maintain the value of the endowment and take into account distributions and inflation?” El-Erian said...
Think of a guy who is anxious that his hacienda in Miami might be caught in a bubble but doesn't want to cash out and move. If he buys a put option on the Miami housing-price index and the value of homes in Miami (including his) slides, the money he makes on the derivative offsets his loss. A put option is the right, but not the obligation, to sell a security at a set price. A futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell something at a future date. Both are derivatives because they derive their value...
...means a new syllabus and often a different textbook for the same course. Tutorials—seminars in most other departments—are taught by grad students in their area of research. As such, they have a high student-teacher ratio, high grading curve, and even higher esoterica index. Hardly Social Studies 10. However, economics, philosophy, and quantum mechanics classes all count toward the mathematics concentration, and writing a good proof is similar to writing a good legal argument. Though official data isn’t released, anecdotal evidence suggests a gender ratio that could only be described with...
...from nothing. There's no question that people are getting bigger. Even the most strident obesity skeptics concede that across Western populations, adults are on average 7 kg heavier than they were 25 years ago. Nor does anyone dispute that, according to the standard measuring tool of body mass index, or BMI (which is calculated by dividing body weight in kilograms by height in meters squared), the majority of Australian and New Zealand adults are either overweight or obese. Based on its National Health Survey 2004-05, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reports that...
...made no references to the 2005 divestment campaign that led Harvard to sell its shares of a Chinese oil company, Sinopec, with ties to the Sudanese government. Instead, he mentioned issues like pressure for fund managers to avoid investments in tobacco companies, and suggested that countries could invest in index funds to avoid political problems...