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...stocks aren't the only concern. In the lastseveral months alone, a series of stumbles in theendowment's private placement portfolio--long atarget of HMC's most spirited critics--have costHarvard tens of millions of dollars...
...announced in March that no further dividends would be paid. The stinging embarrassment for Harvard, one of the few institutions of higher learning that has the resources to boast an endowment management corporation, is that its financial performance is not even competitive with the average national university's endowment portfolio...
There is one particular part of the Harvard Management Company which would require special attention-the handling of the $1.25 billion risk capital or private placement portfolio. Other factors besides sheer professional incompetence and fiscal negligence may be responsible for monumental losses. The managers operate behind a veil of secrecy under the fallacious pretext of losing competitive financial advantage. This argument is nothing less than an insult to Harvard's financial intelligence...
...Harvard officials say the University will not be joining the trend, despite a move by another Ivy League school, Columbia University, to de-emphasize the test. While Fitzsimmons says scores are a small part of a candidate's portfolio, the University is reluctant to completely discount the SAT's validity...
...surprised. Willie Nelson's gone and grown up -- but he's done that before. From Nashville tunesmith to Austin outlaw, country singer to pop star, counterculture plaything to movie personality, conscience of Farm Aid to IRS whipping boy, he's remained a maverick without portfolio or apology. The only consistent quality about him has been his unpredictability...