Word: riskier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Jack R. Meyer arrives at the Harvard Management Corporation (HMC) president's office on Atlantic Ave. this September, he will take control of a vast investment empire which has expanded through a series of financial markets--each one more sophisticated and riskier--since its creation...
BUSINESS: Hollywood movies are bigger and riskier than ever...
Despite their name, junk bonds -- more politely known as high-yield, high- risk bonds -- often serve a useful financial purpose. Companies that are too small to issue blue-chip bonds can use high-yield securities to raise money for expansion. Because their debt is considered riskier than the bonds of their larger brethren, the junk issuers must pay five percentage points or more above the prime rate...
...part, Weil suggests that Harvard's decision to invest in the "less traditional areas" has been not so much a question of a riskier strategy as a function of the University's financial strength. Weil points out that many colleges do not have the money to make the high-return investments Harvard has made...