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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 ...

Experts bullish on US despite debt gloom

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... agreed on a positive outlook for US stocks but referred to the Australian housing market as a bubble. Economists such as Harvard professor Martin Feldstein have predicted nothing but gloom ahead for the troubled North American country, which must seek ...

Economic woes keep US growth in check

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
Fund managers hoping for a US GDP growth rate of 3 per cent or better are likely to be disappointed if Harvard academic Martin Feldstein is correct. Dr Feldstein recently told the Australian Centre for Financial Studies that the US was unlikely to achieve ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... Sydney. Virgin Blue chief executive John Borghetti is set to speak at a Financial Services Council luncheon in Sydney. Harvard University Business School Professor Robert Kaplan is scheduled to address a Committee for Economic Development of Australia ...

Bored with half-empty glasses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
... there doesn't seem to be that same concern in China. China's Shanghai Composite Index rose 1.9 per cent yesterday despite Harvard University professor and former IMF chief economist Kenneth Rogoff's warning that China's property market is starting to ...

Harvard puts property on sale

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
The $29 billion Harvard University endowment fund is looking to sell a slice of its $5 billion-plus real estate portfolio to lessen its exposure to embattled property markets. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the fund is looking to deploy ...