Word: investors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Independent Investor...
...Sometimes Brash Investor...
...relatively conservative field of endowment management, where each university's goal is primarily to maintain its economic standing, Harvard is seen as a large and sometimes brash investor. The University was among the first to become involved in the realm of venture capital and leveraged buyouts (LBO), both of which offer high yields on investment, but at a high risk...
According to Cabot, one of the major goals of the HMC diversification was to move into areas where Harvard is an "exceptional" investor and can "make a difference" for an individual company...
Because of Tokyo's rising interest rates, the premium that the U.S. offers in comparison with Japanese bonds has narrowed to a ten-year low. Says Robert DiClemente, an analyst at Salomon Brothers: "There is very little incentive for any investor to come to our shores these days." A year ago, Japan's ten- year government securities carried a yield of 4.9%, 4 percentage points lower than in the U.S. Last week those bonds posted a yield of almost 6.6%, less than 2 percentage points below the U.S. yield...