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...funds will go toward resuscitating the country's dormant arms industry. "We had 1% [share] of the world's arms market in the 1970s and 1980s," says Reserve Colonel Geraldo Lesbat Cavagnari, coordinator of the Strategic Studies Group at Unicamp university. "We need to recuperate that industry and invest in it. That means producing for the Brazilian armed forces...
...ever. The investments by GIC and Abu Dhabi, part of the United Arab Emirates, marks a turning point of sorts for SWFs. These enormous pools of wealth, controlled by governments in countries that have been getting fat off high oil prices and a booming global economy, are viewed suspiciously by those who fear foreign powers might use them to gain competitive advantages or push political agendas. But now, thanks in part to the bank deals, some fears have been allayed; companies in need of capital are courting investments from oil- and gas-rich states such as Abu Dhabi and Russia...
...What this means is that divestment merely transfers the profits gained from one investor to another. As long as someone is willing to invest in a given company, no divestment will have any effect. Therefore, divestment campaigns only hurt the investors they go after, such as Harvard’s endowment or Cambridge’s pension fund, and cannot cause real change. This conclusion is backed up by empirical studies. An August study from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College surveyed the academic literature and found that such “social investing?...
...same time that Harvard is making plans to expand across the river, Boston College (BC) is preparing to expand across the street. BC will invest $700 million over the next 10 years in the construction of a new complex of buildings across Commonwealth Avenue from its main campus, the college announced Wednesday. As in Harvard’s Allston development plans, BC is putting interdisciplinary science at the center of its expansion. BC’s new Brighton campus will feature an integrated science complex designed to facilitate research spanning multiple fields, as well as facilities for the fine arts...
...conclusion, he sums up his argument, stating: “If we read what Jesus says and see what he has done, we must be convinced that the status quo, ancient or contemporary, is still not where he would have us be. The notion that we should invest in some sense of primitive purity rather than in the adventure of what is not yet and is yet to come suggests that we really do not trust the nature of Jesus’ ministry, and that should he come again as he came before, we would disregard him in the same...