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Newspapers: obituaries and renewals.
in Sox First, on March 17, 2009
...lligencer . The Financial Times says there might be two hopes for the industry: that charitable endowments may replace commercial business models and that readers who have grown accustomed to find...
$8 Billion Evaporates from Harvard's Endowment
in The Universities Weblog, on December 10, 2008
... fiscal year ending in June 2009.
Of course, Harvard is not alone in this dilemma. Most university endowments have taken a hit on the stock market in the last few months.
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Endowment Investing Options
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 2, 2008
... 100 Women in hedge funds is presenting Notre Dame's Scott Malpass to discuss how endowments approach investments and stay the course in these curious and uncertain times. The event is bein...
Who says SaaS is hard?
in The CIO Weblog, on July 31, 2008
... hosting providers).
This may well be true of big vendors, with large enterprise customers in the crosshairs. But for vendors such as Whitebirch, aimed at the SMB or departmental markets, there is no...
Massachusetts May Tax College Endowments
in The Universities Weblog, on May 11, 2008
..., the state legislature in Massachusetts is considering a plan to tax college and university endowments that are valued at more than a billion dollars, according to University Business .
The ...
Orchid Asia Closes Fourth Fund
in China Venture News, on February 26, 2008
...tors in Asia, Europe, the US and the Middle East - investors that include private banks, university endowments, insurance companies, and others.
Orchid managing director Gabriel Li works out of the c...
Hedge Funds and Institutional Investing
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on February 11, 2008
...fund allocations over the last several years. Portfolio allocations to hedge funds averaged 30% for endowments, 13% for pension funds, and 24% for institutions.
The paper is based partly on a survey...
Northern Light Closes Second Fund
in China Venture News, on February 3, 2008
...lated companies in China.
The fund's investors include a broad range of government funds, endowments and non-profit foundations. There are investors from the United States, Europe and Asia. ...
Conrad Black finds God
in Sox First, on October 24, 2007
...of class war. He writes: "We have the...pursuit of prominent, well-off people who get into the crosshairs of the system essentially as a substitute for a wealth-redistribution policy, and we have...
Yale's Endowment Ranks #1 in Earnings
in The Universities Weblog, on September 27, 2007
... single year. The public radio show Marketplace took at look today at some of the ways university endowments manage to reach such high growth rates.
In his blog today, Phil Deely takes a quick l...
Congressional Testimony: What Venture Capitalists Actually Do...
in China Venture News, on September 8, 2007
... other asset classes.
Venture funds raise capital from institutional investors like pension funds, endowments, and foundations and to a lesser extent from individual investors. Our charge is to inves...
Death Bonds
in Businesspundit, on July 23, 2007
...ing them into a pool, dividing the pool into bonds, and selling the bonds to pension funds, college endowments, and other professional investors. If the market develops as Wall Street expects, ordinar...
Hedge Fund Survey Shows Established Names Have More Chance of Success
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on February 16, 2007
... megalaunches in the past few years is likely to continue if institutional investors - pensions and endowments more so than funds of funds - continue to wade into hedge funds."
It's interest...
Tar River Wine Festival
in Celebrate Wine, on January 10, 2007
...al is sponsored by the Rocky Mount Area Community Fund and all proceeds are used to build permanent endowments to benefit cultural, educational, and charitable organizations in the Twin County area. T...
Pensions and Hedge funds bet against the dollar
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 19, 2006
... gone into foreign securities, according to Financial Research in Boston. Pensions, hedge funds and endowments are also shifting from U.S. assets, lifting investments in international stocks by 72 per...
Renaissance Opens New Fund
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on August 26, 2006
...promising start that continues to bring in new investors from a wide array of pension funds, endowments and other institutions. I'm surprised the new fund claims to be able to take $100 bil...
Nike Business School
in The Universities Weblog, on August 3, 2006
...ic company co-founder, university officials said. The remaining $5 million will be used for faculty endowments.
"Stanford Business School was an important part of my life," Knight said in a...
GRAW - ARGH!
in XboxSpace, on March 13, 2006
...y (pretty badass) sniper rifle, and zoom in on the target's head...
As soon as I get him in my crosshairs, he all of a sudden notices me, and shoots at me! Every single time! They have no idea wh...
GGV's Scott Bonham on China Investment & Entrepreneurship
in China Venture News, on February 19, 2006
...ntures II. The company raised US$225 million from a number of limited partners, includes university endowments, pension funds, and returning LPs. This VC fund was founded in 2000 and has invested in ...
Endowment Rich Get Richer
in The Universities Weblog, on January 23, 2006
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(Source: Olin College) Nine colleges joined the billionaire club last year, as endowments climbed by an average of just over nine percent. Harvard still tops the list, at $25.5 billion---ne...
Merit-Based Aid Attracts Students, Taxes Colleges
in The Universities Weblog, on January 10, 2006
...ts. Neither do Stanford and Caltech and MIT. But many private colleges, especially those with small endowments and limited prestige, are competing with each other and less-expensive public institution...
Obscure Scholarships Cause Headaches
in The Universities Weblog, on January 6, 2006
...ersities. But other scholarships, amounting to perhaps several million dollars more, are tied up in endowments that have rules so obscure and restrictive that they are rarely tapped---even as the cost...
Is Yahoo's Strategy to Stay out of Microsoft's Way?
in Businesspundit, on December 6, 2005
...g a media company and a content delivery platform, Yahoo may be able to stay out of Microsoft's crosshairs longer than some of its competitors. And history has shown that the consequences of tackl...
Santa Barbara Foothills Hikes: Tears at Teardrop Part 3, California or Ciguatan?
in The Outdoor Weblog, on November 11, 2005
... an extraordinarly thorough near extinction ensued. It was a land that the Spanish crown had in its crosshairs for expansion and natural resources. Instead of the commonly believed (or stuffed down ch...
Affirmative Action for Less-Affluent Students
in The Universities Weblog, on April 29, 2005
...ion is whether or not schools can afford to enroll them. At some colleges, the answer is yes. Large endowments spin off lots of money for scholarships, and a few schools are able to discount tuition a...
Don't Fight The Fed
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on April 27, 2005
...peech last week that is quite revealing of at least his thinking. It seems he has inflation in his crosshairs, housing be damned.
But, in the same vein, we should not hesitate to raise interest rat...
Carnival of the Capitalists - Anniversary Edition (pt 1)
in Businesspundit, on October 11, 2004
...u, your site specifically. Choose them wisely to make them realize that you have what they want.
Crosshairs is making the point that direct mail isn't necessarily junk mail .
Last night, I ...
the different kinds of startups
in TJ's Weblog, on May 12, 2004
...rn, each class of initiative can be characterized by a set of initial conditions. Those typical endowments will provide us with some insight regarding the relative amount and kind of investment capita...
College Endowments in the Crosshairs of IRS
in The Universities Weblog, on April 27, 2008
...Are college and university endowments hoarding their money? Senator Charles E. Grassley, (R-Iowa) thinks so. And he wants to do something about it. He wants to require colleges and universities to...