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...endowment rose from last year’s $17.5 billion, with investments bringing in $2.1 billion, or 12.5 percent returns, according to Jack E. Meyer, president of the Harvard Management Company (HMC), the group responsible for investing Harvard’s endowment...
...don’t know of a single large fund that did better than 12.5 percent returns,” Meyer said yesterday. “In fact, we don’t know of another fund in the country that was even in double digits...
Despite the $1.8-billion growth this past year, when adjusted for higher education price inflation, the endowment is still 11 percent below its FY00 close and previous record of $19.1 billion, Meyer said...
According to Meyer, performance of bond portfolios provided the key to this year’s success—HMC investments in foreign and domestic bonds outperformed benchmarks by 12.6 and 34.4 percent, respectively...
...which center on things like trading volume and market share. How the exchange measures up against its predetermined targets heavily influences annual bonuses. A typical company will reach its performance targets less than 75% of the time and only rarely blow through them by a wide margin, says Pearl Meyer, an executive compensation consultant. Yet since Grasso took over in 1995, the exchange has far exceeded its targets every year, documents show. That suggests the targets are a lay-up, Meyer says. Frank Ashen, executive vice president of human resources at the exchange, says that's not the case...