Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surface a simple hand-over of command, the move injects a new and complicating element into Israel's already tangled politics. Barring another war, Bar-Lev will step into the Cabinet, probably in April, to take up the key economic portfolio of Minister of Commerce and Industry. He will also step into an increasingly bitter campaign for the succession to Premier Golda Meir...
...assets is simply plunked into savings and checking accounts-the "cigar box" approach. The rest consists of securities and commercial property worth almost $1 billion, which puts the church a notch above the Rockefeller Foundation. But this money is often badly invested. One bank trust officer scanned a diocesan portfolio and remarked, "If your grandmother were unusually timid, this is what she'd do with her money." Sometimes the yield does not even cover the cost of investment. Gollin thinks U.S. dioceses are "perhaps the least effectual investment institution in this country, if not in the world...
...whether his plan of study includes tutorials or not, may request that he be given a comprehensive general examination administered by a committee designated by his department or committee. A student planning to pursue graduate studies would ordinarily profit by taking such an examination and including in his personal portfolio the committee's record of evaluation. (See the final section, on evaluation, for a description of the personal portfolio). Therefore, most students will elect to take their general examinations in the fall of their third year; and those who are working on senior essays or projects will have the remainder...
Meanwhile, at the Mansion. Of the 1,159,562 shares that Playboy Enterprises plans to sell, 300,000 come from Hefner's personal portfolio. He will still retain some 6,700,000 shares, or 71.9% of the total. The tiny 11¾? annual dividend on each share provides Hefner with about $800,000 a year to go with his salary of $303,847. As chairman, president, editor and publisher, he has another $372,924 tucked away in his profit-sharing account. In addition, his mansions in Chicago and suburban Los Angeles are owned by the corporation and used...
Bennett has influenced the Corporation so heavily in matters of investment policy for several reasons. First, as treasurer and manager of Harvard's investment portfolio, he speaks with the authority of the man who knows, the man that others must ask. Investment policy is a complex and highly specialized field. Because Bennett is both treasurer and investment manager, he has established a monopoly on knowledge of Harvard's financial intricacies...