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Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... highlights the market's pre-occupation with anything and everything scary. Incidentally, Bloomberg quoted data compiled by Yale University Professor Robert Shiller again last night, saying that the S&P 500 would need to sink another 27 per cent to reach ...

Governance indices create illusions: study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... Governance Indices' by Sanjai Bhagat, Brian Bolton and Roberta Romano, from the Universities of Colorado, New Hampshire and Yale, has found that "there is no consistent relation between governance indices and measures of corporate performance." The problem ...

Fanning the flames of fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... highlights the market's pre-occupation with anything and everything scary. Incidentally, Bloomberg quoted data compiled by Yale University Professor Robert Shiller again last night, saying that the S&P 500 would need to sink another 27 per cent to reach ...

Chinese medicine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... York-based money manager last night saying, 'stocks are cheap and the sun will rise again.' Bloomberg also quoted renowned Yale University professor Robert Shiller's data showing that the S&P 500 index is at its cheapest level since 1986. I don't think ...

Innovators, imitators and idiots

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
Yale Endowment wannabes trying to emulate their heroes with high exposures to timber products pushed up prices to 30 times pre-tax cash flow, setting them up for big falls in 2009. The frenzy, reported by Barron's, a newsletter published by the Wall ...

QIC awards $570m mandate to US endowment fund

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2007
... Stanford Management Company. The Stanford endowment is regarded as one of the top three of its kind in the US along with Yale and Harvard. "Another strength for Makena Capital is the quality of its Financial Oversight Board which includes former Westpac ...

Hedge and non-hedge collide

... different to the vanilla type of returns that [traditional managed fund] investors are locked into," he said. Calling it "Yale endowment envy", after the growing number of fund managers hoping to clone the high returns of the Yale Endowment Fund, Rogers ...

Macquarie makes it easy to invest in agriculture

... with the industry in the United States where institutional involvement remains strong in agri-investing. He highlights the Yale Endowment fund as an example where the institutional fund has a targeted 20 per cent allocation to "real assets" including ...
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