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...demand and came up with a new way to bankroll films: institutional investors could take a portfolio approach to film financing and buy a stake in several of a studio's films, like a mutual fund of movies. The goal was to share in the typically 13%-18% annual rate of return that studios enjoy, with hits outweighing duds...
...seen. Great new fortunes were made, and with them came great new hubris. The newly minted masters of the universe even had the nerve to defend their ridiculous income tax break - much of the private-equity managers' piece of their investors' profits is taxed at the 15% capital-gains rate rather than at the normal top federal income tax rate of 35% - as being good for society. ("Hey, we're creating wealth - cut us some slack...
...like Lehman, was ultimately done in by credit-rating agencies, of all things. The main credit raters - Moody's and Standard & Poor's - had blithely assigned top-drawer AAA and AA ratings to all sorts of hinky mortgage securities and other financial esoterica without understanding the risks involved. Would you know how to rate a collateralized loan obligation? Or commercial-mortgage-backed securities? Sophisticated investors took Moody's and S&P's word for it, and it turned out that the agencies didn't know what they were doing. Credit raters, who claim to offer only opinions, are party...
...last World Malaria Report in 2005, tallied the global incidence rate at between 350 million and 500 million new cases of malaria per year. The current report downgrades that figure to 247 million. Likewise, where the last report claimed that the disease kills "more than 1 million" people each year, the 2008 update, which is based on 2006 data (the most recent numbers available), suggests that figure is now closer...
...Deirdre C. Leopold, and the 22 Harvard seniors who were accepted were part of an admitted cohort of 106. Almost half of the admits were from engineering or natural science backgrounds, with a large proportion of these students involved in the life sciences.The 2+2 program yielded an acceptance rate of approximately 17 percent, slightly higher than the regular admissions rate of 14 percent for the MBA class of 2009. The acceptance rate for Harvard undergraduates into the 2+2 program was well above both averages at about 33 percent.“I think that we?...