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Investor confidence hits 14 year low

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... "Globally, institutional investor confidence is at the lowest level it has been since the inception of the ICI in 1998," said Harvard University professor Kenneth Froot, who co-developed the index. "This month's reading is 1.5 points below the previous ...

Investor confidence index down: State Street

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... global investor confidence is the result of diminished risk appetite among both North American and Asian investors," said Harvard University professor Kenneth Froot, who co-developed the index with State Street Associate's Paul O'Connell. Given the United ...

MFOs take growth from banks

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
... municipal bonds. The fund had been pitched to Citi's private-banking clients as a safe bond alternative. Bloomberg quotes the Harvard Business School Families in Business program chair as saying multifamily offices have been trying to figure out a profitable ...

SMSFs need better access to alternatives: BlueSky

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012
... Multiport that shows a 1.1% allocation to the broad 'alternatives' bucket, which contrasts with the strong-performing Harvard Endowment Fund, which has 42% and the Future Fund with 30%. "Over the same time period, Australian super has returned 5.2% per ...

HIP Super members get access to Best Doctors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
... claiming the deal was only possible because of its small size. MLC's Best Doctors is an exclusive service run out of the Harvard Medical School that allows members to contact panels of the world's best doctors to re-examine their case notes, introduce ...

Funds should target retirement income not returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2011
... allocations but retirement income replacement ratios, said Dr Larry Beeferman, from the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. "If someone is in a default investment, should it be a default income level at retirement where you effectively ...

Harvard defies critics with 21% return

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
Harvard Management Company, the entity that manages Harvard Endowment Fund's assets, has again defied its critics and posted a stunning 21.4% return for the 12 months to end June 2011, bringing their 20-year average annual return to almost 13%. The ...

School's in for hedge funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... University and Stanford. The top universities for MBA entry are New York University, University of Pennsylvania, Chicago, Harvard, with Stanford, Northwestern and Fordham universities tying for fifth place. However it's not as simple as attending the ...

S.O.S

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... in spending by consumers and the government, according to five of the nine members of the panel that dates recessions. Harvard University economics professor Martin Feldstein, one of the members of committee at the National Bureau of Economic Research ...

Big Benny and little Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... economy, but it's the thumbtack that's holding the Eurozone together at the moment (the final nail in the coffin perhaps?) As Harvard University Professor Marin Feldstein writes in the Financial Times, "If Greece were the only insolvent European country ...