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...before being honorably discharged last summer, he moved from Dayton, Ohio, to Los Angeles seeking work but soon wound up in a 515-bed facility run by the public-private organization U.S. VETS. Brown's plight is not unique. The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans is releasing a nationwide survey this week that counted 67 vets from Iraq and Afghanistan in homeless shelters at some point last year. "A lot of guys I met in the service were loners," says Brown. "And when they get out, their support system is pretty small...
Endowments’ total returns for fiscal year 2004 averaged 14.7 percent overall, while the top tenth among them saw an average return of 21.5 percent, which exceeds Harvard’s returns this year, the survey found...
...Allston] discussion between Mass. Hall and everyone else has indeed come to seem more and more like a monologue.” Faculty members have claimed repeatedly that they have not been kept au courant with the Allston initiative. Meanwhile, students were appeased with an online survey while being left mostly in the dark about mammoth decisions, like whether or not to shut down the Quad...
Commonfund’s survey also analyzed where institutions invested their assets. Compared to other endowments, the top performers had more diversified alternative-strategies investments—a class of investments that includes hedge funds, private and public equity real estate, distressed debt, venture capital, and energy and natural resources. Last year’s top performers allocated less to hedge funds and more to energy and natural resources, as well as private equity real estate, the study found...
Across all institutions, the survey reported “modest” changes in asset allocations, including an increase in high-yield bonds. But the top performing endowments decreased their investments in alternative strategies and fixed income, and increased their allocations to domestic and international equity, as well as cash...