Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard must adopt a more watchful attitude toward its investments if it truly is dedicated to the ideals of corporate responsibility. Presently, the Harvard portfolio is stocked with corporations which contribute to oppression, imperialism and death all over the globe while answering to virtually no one. If President Bok's rationale for setting up the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility was anything more than a measure to mollify student concern, Harvard must institute a policy questioning what practices its investments support, and pressuring its interests into a more responsive role...
...allegiance not to Chile's constitution but to the junta. General Pinochet headed the Cabinet as President of the junta. Its other members: Admiral Merino; General Gustavo Leigh Guzman, air force commander in chief; and General Cesar Mendoza Duran, director general of the carabineros. The most important portfolio in the new Cabinet−Interior−went to Army General Oscar Bonilla...
...campaign against racism has raised other hackles, too, by blacklisting some 1,000 firms in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand for investing in or trading with South Africa. The W.C.C. itself sold $ 1.5 million worth of holdings in just such firms (out of its $3.5 million portfolio) as a "symbolic" gesture, but noted that member churches might well use their interest in such companies to influence policies instead...
...Thomas J. Holt of New York City sells an advisory letter for $144 a year to "several thousand" subscribers; he also has a portfolio management service for "a few hundred" clients, who pay Holt up to 2% of the funds that they invest. He thinks that gold-in coins or shares of mining companies-is one of the best investments. He recommends as well a few high-yielding utilities, notably those in rural areas, where soaring food prices will create a demand for more services for prospering farmers...
...tender offer is the largest deal that the C.D.C. has so far attempted. The addition of Texasgulf to its portfolio (other holdings: a synthetic-rubber maker, three medical laboratories in Canada) is expected to speed plans to put C.D.C. stock on sale to the Canadian public. C.D.C. is offering $29 a share for 10 million of the Texasgulf shares held by non-Canadians. Those 10 million amount to one-third of the outstanding stock. If more shares than that are tendered, C.D.C. may buy them too. After the bid, the price of Texasgulf shares rose from...