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...Kurer broke the firm into three separate units partly because the old structure, he said, encouraged "the blurring of the true risk-reward profile of individual businesses." In July, the Institute of International Finance, which counts large banks and insurance companies among its members, put out a 174-page report detailing best practices in the wake of the financial crisis. Among them: developing a corporate culture of risk awareness, integrating analysis of different sorts of risks instead of keeping them in silos, and basing compensation on risk-adjusted performance and long-term, firm-wide profitability...
...still in the 60s despite her turbulent autumn) wouldn't change the fact that Murkowski, whose approval rating was 63% in a March survey, would be a formidable opponent. "Palin would have a hard time winning" the GOP primary, says Gregg Erickson, editor at large for the Alaska Budget Report. Don Mitchell, a Democratic attorney and historian, calls Palin an instinctive politician whose talents rival Ronald Reagan's, and he thinks she could beat Murkowski - but he predicts that Palin would find the Senate a poor fit for her disposition. "She'd have to come in like Hillary Clinton...
Imposing discipline on her sprawling army of supporters might be an even bigger challenge. Obama's efficient, competent, disciplined campaign set a new standard for a well-managed operation. Could Palin do the same? Probably not. One thing the Troopergate report revealed is that she surrounded herself in Alaska with a feckless mix of cronies and yes-men and ceded far too much power to her husband. She would have to be a much better manager and judge of talent than that...
...Harvard Management Company—the group charged with investing the University’s $36.9 billion endowment—is planning to unload $1.5 billion of its riskiest assets, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. The Journal’s article followed similar reports from the trade publication Private Equity Week, which said the company would sell $1 billion of its private equity portfolio. A $1.5 billion sale of its private equity holdings—nearly a third of Harvard’s investments in that sector—would mark one of the largest-ever sales...
...others who worried that legalizing the world's oldest profession would make it easier for women to enter the sex trade, while also making it more dangerous by drawing a criminal element around prostitution. Meanwhile, advocates said it would have improved health care for sex workers and helped them report abuse...