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During the last fiscal year, Harvard used this much of its $9.1 billion endowment to pay for operating expenses. While the endowment earned a 26 percent return, its best performance since 1986, the payout was only 3.65 percent, one of the lowest during the past 25 years...
There are some sound financial principles to support so low a payout, but some financial analysts--and top-ranking Harvard officials--say the University could spend more and still be good stewards of the endowment...
...Disney--perhaps because of an overzealous reading of management's mood--that the Ellen decision might best be delayed until after last February's Disney stockholders' meeting so that chairman Michael Eisner would be spared having to defend that as well as his salary and Mike Ovitz's lavish payout. "When Disney or ABC were worried about boycotts or this or that, I kept saying to everybody, 'I'm the one who's going to get the biggest boycott,'" says DeGeneres. "'You can cancel the show, you can go and make another one. It's not going to hurt...
...focused on what they said were the couple's unusual financial arrangements. One said that Mrs. Jackson will receive $1.24 million for bearing her husband a child and will rake in $2.4 million for Jackson to receive custody if the couple ever divorce, while a London paper put the payout at a relatively modest $528,000 for Jackson Junior's birth and said that the couple had used artificial insemination -- two charges that Jackson heatedly denied. The Jacksons left the hospital, notable also as the birthplace of Madonna's daughter, Lourdes, at about 8 a.m. Thursday morning, their destination unknown...
...that the company would return a chunk of its earnings to them in the form of a hefty dividend. How quaint. The average blue-chip company now pays such a stingy dividend that the yield, which is the dividend divided by the stock price, is less than 2%--a payout so low it had been considered imponderable for most of this century. Yet here it is, another landmark racing past the windshield of this bull-market dragster. Should you care if the typical stock now yields a paltry 1 point something? After all, it's not as though your baby...