Word: portfolios
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...partly because those sin stocks do rack up profits. Through September, the do-good funds averaged a 6.26% return, trailing the average stock fund by 0.6%, according to the research firm Morningstar. "Over time, SRI funds perform about the same as non-SRI ones," says Lloyd Kurtz, a senior portfolio manager at Nelson Capital Management and an expert in the field...
...dramatic arts, nearly all of which require either an audition or interview for admission. In the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department, the process to get into an introductory level class often requires a rigorous “audition,” and in the English department, a portfolio submission is required for every creative writing class...
...When “beginning”-level classes are really for already talented students, they cease to be introductory, and they no longer give novices the chance to try something new. The mere fact that so many of the fine arts classes are audition-based or require a portfolio is enough to scare many students away from applying. An intro-level class should be geared to anyone who wants to try their hand at a new subject, not only to those with extensive experience coming...
...going to be a bumpy ride because what’s happening underneath all that is a realignment in the international economic order,” said El-Erian, who was in charge of California-based bond manager PIMCO’s $28 billion emerging markets portfolio before coming to Harvard. Fixed income was a weak spot, with U.S. bonds being the only asset class to see a loss—a 2.3 percent decline. Looking to the future, El-Erian said that increasingly investors are copying Harvard’s endowment strategies. “The minute something becomes...
...screed about the evils of capitalism. What Amaranth can teach us, rather, is the need for a little humility. The people at Amaranth were the best and the brightest. They were graduates of the best colleges. They took fairly rigorous math and economics courses, where they probably learned Portfolio Theory and Black-Scholes option pricing models. And to be fair, most of what was taught worked most of the time. But then a kind of lethal hubris began to settle in. They began to believe that the right models and right formulas would allow them to master the markets...