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...reduced prices, and in December, the University sold $2.5 billion in bonds in order to raise cash, refinance short-term debt, and terminate certain investment agreements. (Mendillo has stated in the past that HMC began exploring private equity sales even before the financial world imploded, as part of a larger policy portfolio shift that she implemented upon her arrival.) Thursday’s endowment report said that over the past year, HMC has reduced its payments owed to outside investment firms by roughly $3 billion and raised cash in order to explore “attractive investment themes that...
Mendillo partly attributed the endowment’s underperformance to “complications” within the portfolio existing before the financial crisis, including “recent over-sized commitments to illiquid asset classes; within asset classes, a larger proportion of strategies with long holding periods; [and] a lack of ready liquidity in the portfolio to meet our obligations along with the needs of the University.” For years, Harvard has been the subject of scrutiny—and idolatry—as its endowment consistently generated double-digit yearly investment returns, largely...
...effort to make it more “permanent.” With Meme, Schaefer says, “We wanted to create something that gives artists the opportunity to have shows for more than one or two nights.” Having a traditional space also gives a larger audience a chance to see the performance art. “The relics of performance art are amazing and often a show in itself,” Vogler says.Meme’s current exhibition, which will run through September 19, is entitled “What...
...engaged and involved in different ways. They didn't want to just be passive consumers of political television ads. They wanted to have their voices heard. They wanted to interact with their membership - or with their neighbor and their friends. They wanted to be part of something larger than themselves. And we I think tapped into it in technological terms. But it wasn't really the technology that was the story. It was that there was this underlying impulse for people to get involved, especially among younger people...
...right through the Harvard midfield and rifled a shot from over 30 yards out into the top left corner. Questions about the team’s ability to replace the creative influences of Mike Fucito ’09 and John Stamatis ’09 suddenly loomed even larger...