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...WHITMAN: No. We own 25%. When this chunk of stock became available from one of their original partners, we were offered the chance to invest and I said, absolutely. There was no right of first refusal [on future opportunities]. We have a seat on the board, but we don't have any more say in the business than any normal board member would have...
...campaign is driven by our need to invest to ensure that we remain amongst...the top ten universities world-wide,” Peter Agar, director of development at Cambridge, wrote in an e-mail. “We also want to diversify our sources of income (key to preserving academic freedom) and to engage our alumni far more actively in the future of the University and the Colleges...
...size of the endowment can also pose obstacles for the University, which must struggle to find enough high-performing assets in which to invest its billions...
...aren't more deals being done? The 26% ownership restriction is one problem. Tariq Ansari, managing director of Mid Day Multimedia, owner of the popular Bombay newspaper Mid Day, says that most foreign investors want the cap to be higher?at least 49%?before they'll invest in Indian papers. Supporters of the cap point out that many countries have restrictions on foreigners entering their newspaper market?why shouldn't India? Then there's the claim that without the cap, illicit money could enter the local industry. "Would you want funds that have terrorist linkages to enter the media?" asks...
...invest in something that's popular when it's popular is the kiss of death," says Amit Wadhwaney, manager of the New York--based Third Avenue International Value Fund. Indeed, there's no more reliable way of earning dismal long-term returns than betting on what's hot. Consider some of the many ill-fated outbreaks of investor madness that have gripped Asia in recent decades: the giddiness over Japanese stocks in the late 1980s, the Hong Kong property bubble of the 1990s, euphoria over Chinese red chips in 1996-97 and the mad rise of Thai banking stocks before...