Word: investment
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Harvard was again the target of a "sweatshop" rally Thursday, as nearly 200 carpenters protested a Harvard decision to invest in a luxury apartment complex plagued by charges of unfair labor practices...
Workers decried the decision of the Harvard Management Corporation (HMC) to invest in the $30 million apartment complex in Waltham, known as the Villages at Bear Hill...
Fortunately, an alternative solution exists: we can move toward a "fully-funded," privatized system. Individuals could direct a portion of their payroll taxes to their own retirement accounts. They would have the opportunity to invest their savings in stocks and bonds. When individuals retire, they would draw their benefits from their own accounts. In other words, retirees would receive a portion of their benefits from their own savings rather than from payroll taxes on younger generations of workers...
Sanford is a complex, brilliant figure in American finance and someone to know if you care to comprehend why your bank just got gobbled up or why your mutual-fund company has begun offering a hundred new ways for you to invest your money. He popularized the notion of risk management, one of the most important ideas in modern finance. He didn't come up with the notion (credit academia), but more than anyone else he helped pioneer a new kind of risk-aware investing that offered a first glimpse of a world of high-wire, high-tech finance...
...feeding frenzy for banks finally caught your attention. All it took was the two biggest bank deals ever, within a week of history's biggest deal of any kind--also involving a bank. If you're just now planning to invest around this craze, hello, you're late. Very late. But all good manias last longer than they should, and this one probably will too. If you are not put off by sky-high valuations or a possible turn for the worse in the banking cycle, yes, you may yet crack open the vault with bank stocks...