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Critics have said that the move makes it easierfor HMC to appear to outperform the market when infact...
...think over time our policy portfolio willslightly outperform the average universityendowment, and I think that we will succeed inmodestly outperforming the policy portfolio," hesaid. "Put the two together, and we'll have a nicerecord...
...quarrel I do. When friends call to ask which mutual fund to plunge into, I make the following speech: "It's great that you're thinking about stocks," I say, "because, over the long run, stocks will outperform safer investments. And it's great that you've decided to go the mutual-fund route, because that's almost always wiser than picking the stocks yourself. (Do yourself a favor, though," I remind them, "and choose a fund with low annual expenses and no sales fee.) But are you sure now is the time to jump in? Now, when stocks...
...findings showed that in some ways the American public school classroom is a feminine domain. Nearly three-quarters of teachers are women. Though the sexes do equally well in math and science grades, girls outperform boys overall. In verbal skills, girls move into the lead around Grade 5 or 6 and thereafter do better than boys in writing and, by most measures, reading. Females constitute less than a third of students identified as emotionally disturbed or learning disabled. Despite teen pregnancies, girls are less likely to drop out of high school and more likely to attend college...
...what's the problem? For one thing, there is a gap in scores on standardized tests, especially in math and science, which the report blames partly on lingering bias in both testing and curriculum. On Advanced Placement tests, which enable students to earn college credit during high school, boys outperform girls in math, physics and biology. On the SAT test, that ubiquitous measure of alleged merit, in 1991 boys beat girls by 8 points in the verbal score and 44 points in math...