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Domestic equities are the largest accounting category of Harvard's holdings, according to the University's policy portfolio, making up 22 percent of the endowment. Fifteen percent is invested in foreign equities and 10 percent in domestic bonds...
...year your real estate will do fine and your equity investments won't," said Jim Rowe, who served as vice president of government, community and public affairs from 1994-1998. "This is an extraordinarily diverse portfolio. Year in and year out some of these categories will do better than others...
Many states are already tinkering with the Texas formula. In addition to offering kids multiple tries to pass high-stakes tests, some states weigh other measures of student achievement alongside the exams. In Vermont students are assessed and promoted on the basis of a portfolio of work that includes a state test, classwork and teacher evaluations...
...manage it with her as financial adviser. The average age of Stein Roe Young Investor Fund's 231,248 shareholders is 10. "I check the newspaper to see how the stocks are doing that I invested heavily into," says Bethany Murphy, 11, who came by a hypothetical $50,000 portfolio when her Mount Laurel, N.J., newspaper ran a contest to track readers' stock picks. Bethany lost the contest but discovered a knack for choosing stocks by virtually "earning" a 14% return. Typical of market-savvy children, she has an astute eye for the world around her. She won a national...
Each year nationwide, 250,000 fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders play "the Stock Market Game," a simulation sponsored by the Securities Industry Foundation for Economic Education. Students open a $100,000 imaginary portfolio to save or "invest" in common stocks. Lisa Ballek, who teaches the game to all fifth-graders at Midland Elementary School in Rye, N.Y., says the simulation brings fractions and decimals to life, especially for students who struggle with math. "They're so excited that they can finally understand what all these numbers mean. That's my favorite part," she says. Her students finished the year with...