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...star began to rise in the 1980s, Shleifer was often mentioned in the same breath as stellar Harvard economist and future University President Lawrence H. Summers. Indeed, the two had met when Shleifer was a Harvard sophomore. According to an Institutional Investor article published in January of this year, rumor has it that he pointed out errors in one of Summers’ papers, and after that, the two became mentor and mentee, invisible hand in invisible hand...
Yale out-sources much of its endowment-management work to hedge funds and other investment firms. Harvard, by contrast, uses in-house investors to handle a large chunk of its own holdings. Harvard pays hefty salaries to its own moneymen—the top-paid in-house investor earned $17.9 million in the 2005 fiscal year—but the University says that it pays less in fees to external managers as a result. Universities are required to reveal the salaries of their highest-paid employees on their federal and state tax returns—but they aren?...
...Banca Intesa to give Italy its first major European banking player. But by the second week of September the sunny summer spirit was fading. Telecom's announcement that it was splitting its fixed-line and mobile phone sectors - which could result in the sale of the latter - left investors cold. Two days later, a visibly incensed Prodi declared to a swarm of television cameras that Tronchetti Provera had kept him out of the loop about any planned sell-offs. The would-be statesman of Lebanon sounded like he could barely run his own country. But the center-left leader...
...return is estimated to have come in just above the average” for the 25 richest universities, according to Harvard’s chief investor, Mohammed A. El-Erian. And “just above the average” is not a place where Harvard likes...
While Dorothy left the Midwest to find her wizard, 85 Harvard students will travel to heartland America in early October to meet the man Time Magazine named the “Wizard of Nebraska”—the legendary investor Warren Buffett...