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...known as a life settlement--has grown from nothing a decade ago to $13 billion, and will hit $160 billion over the next few years, according to estimates from the investment firm Bernstein Research. There are about 50 life-settlement firms, which either hold onto the policies for their portfolio or package them for resale to Wall Street. Pension and hedge-fund managers are snapping up these investments, eager to lock up returns that are not correlated to the stock market...
...president is now a part-time managing director at New York-based D. E. Shaw Group. Summers, who will take on the new position in addition to his current role as the Eliot University professor, will focus his efforts on “various strategic initiatives and high-level portfolio management activities” at the hedge fund, the firm announced yesterday. Summers, a former secretary of the U.S. Treasury, said his new role will not change his status as a Harvard faculty member. “This is entirely within the context of the normal outside activities...
...Shaw Group announced today that Summers "will be involved on a part-time basis in various strategic initiatives and high-level portfolio management activities...
...group, which has no Boston office, maintains a staff of 1,000 employees worldwide and a portfolio of about $25 billion...
...that's not quite true. There aren't very many people--ebony, ivory or other--who have Obama's distinctive portfolio of talents, or what he calls his "exotic" family history. His parentage was the first thing he chose to tell us about himself when he delivered his knockout keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004: his father was from Kenya and his mother from Kansas. He told the story in brilliant, painful detail in his first book, Dreams from My Father, which may be the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician. His parents...