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...Venture capital firms loose all of their money on 80 percent of investments," Meyer says. "However, if the home runs are big enough, they can do fine...
...Meyer and Phillips say the third-party investors can make a big difference in how much the schools gain from venture capital...
Even with the high risk of venture capital investments, Meyer says it is an important and necessary part of Harvard's and other universities' endowment investments. He notes that while the investment itself may be risky, the diversity of the endowment portfolio, enhanced by venture capital, mitigates the danger of great losses...
...risk in the [endowment] portfolio is lower today than it was eight to 10 years ago," Meyer says...
Despite its attempts to avoid as much risk as possible in venture capital investing, Meyer says HMC understands it could lose significant amounts of money in these investments and is prepared to take these loses. These kind of loses would not be unprecedented, as the endowment lost $1.3 billion in the summer of 1998 in emerging-market and other risky investments...