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...primary obstacles Saretsky has already begun to deal with is the Academic Index (AI), a league-wide admissions metric rooted in standardized test scores and class rank...
...institution to eliminate these indirect holdings can be high.“The obvious and easiest form of divestment is just to take no discretionary active position in a company,” Campbell says. “But it’s much trickier to eliminate indexes because the world market today is organized into indexes.”An index fund is a kind of mutual fund that is designed to match the stocks included in market indexes such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average or the S&P 500.While Campbell says he might support divestment...
...index grew 15.8 percent...
...most visible people on campus, the fast-moving Sundquist, who while in high school was recruited by major colleges to compete in the 400-meter event, runs his schedule as smoothly as he used to circle a track.With his list of appointments written on a folded index card in his pocket, he walks the Yard with the apparent intention of speaking to everyone in sight. And more often than not, his targets are receptive. Sundquist’s speech is uniquely disarming: a mélange of strikingly understated, philosophy-tinged awareness, with a streak of beach-style casual that...
...Harvard to further divest from companies with ties to the Sudanese government in an uncontested vote last night. The University has in recent years ended its direct investments in two Chinese oil companies that do business in Sudan, but still holds indirect investments in these companies and others through index funds managed by Barclays, a British bank. Representatives of the Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG) were on hand to present yesterday’s legislation, which included both a position paper and a resolution urging the administrators of Harvard’s endowment to adhere to HDAG?...