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...Harvard’s top money managers declined in their last full year of work before they left to form their own fund. Former bond managers David R. Mittelman and Maurice Samuels were paid $18 million and $16.9 million, respectively, for their work at Harvard Management Company (HMC), which invests the endowment. Jack R. Meyer, the firm’s former president, received $6 million for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2005. The University disclosed the salaries on Dec. 21, the first day of winter break for undergraduates. The performance-based salaries dropped off from past highs. Manager...
...going to resemble China before it achieved economic success. In order to compete, Italians will have to give up the buying power and social security they are used to. Italy has been living under the delusion that the manufacture of quality chairs is rocket science. It has failed to invest in research, education and high technology. Now the reality is hitting home, and Italy will go down. The question is how far down. Diego Amicabile Munich...
...going to resemble China before it achieved economic success. In order to compete, Italians will have to give up the buying power and social security they are used to. Italy has been living under the delusion that the manufacture of quality chairs is rocket science. It has failed to invest in research, education and high technology. Now the reality is hitting home, and Italy will go down. The question is how far down. Diego Amicabile Munich Time's cover art is always original and meaningful, but the illustration for " Italy vs. China," depicting Michelangelo's David and a Chinese terracotta...
...with the exception of Wiltshire, left this year to start a new hedge fund, Convexity Capital Managemet. The University plans to invest in the new fund...
...real risk that billions of dollars from the Gateses, no matter how leveraged, will not be nearly enough to reverse the slip-sliding decline in health in poor countries. There is an equally great risk that they will waste billions of dollars trying. To hedge their bets, they invest not in one malaria treatment, for example, but in many. And they try to stay flexible. After they were criticized for investing too heavily in new inventions, they put more money into distributing fixes that already exist. They also don't scare easily: when it was discovered that one kind...