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...taken on new dimensions as well. Mass Hall has diverted pressure to a Corporation subcommittee and a Faculty-student-alumni group called the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsiblity. The ACSR has met twice already, and it is currently pondering a list of 20 proxy resolutions--compiled by the Investor Responsibility Research Center--which will come up this Spring. Harvard owns stock in 13 of the companies involved...
During 1972, at least four individuals and three families in the U.S. are known to have made on paper not just millions but tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in stock profits. Alas for the dreams of the average investor, all were rich to begin with, and their formula for multiplying wealth is, to say the least, difficult to follow. It consists of owning, and sitting on, a large block of stock in a major company that the investor or his family founded, and managing that company to eye-popping sales and profit growth. A rundown on the known...
First Time. Theoretically, the SEC action is of major importance. It marks the first time that the Government agency has told the exchanges whom they can and cannot admit. But in practice it probably will mean little to the ordinary investor. Possibly some mutual-fund salesman may offer to handle the investor's trades as well as try to sell him shares in the fund. But the biggest institutions have little chance of generating a public brokerage volume four times as large as their own trades, and thus would have to continue funneling most of the fund transactions through...
President Bok asked for the creation of the ACSR in October to advise the five man Corporation subcommittee he appointed on questions involving Harvard's social responsibilities as an investor...
...alleys, restaurants, taxi and bus companies, and trading houses that import everything from American cars to golf clubs. Last year the company earned $26 million on revenues of $330 million. Osano is also the biggest private shareholder in Japan Air Lines, the state-operated flag carrier, and a major investor in All Nippon Airways, the domestic carrier...