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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 ...

AUI signs Asian equities jv

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
... Singapore and founded a boutique investment research business, Enlightenment Media, in Hong Kong in 2000. Erlanson is Harvard-educated and fluent in Mandarin. Meanwhile, Dr Ken Lu, who will be the fund's senior portfolio manager was the founder and managing ...

Ascalon adds hedge fund boutique

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
... separately at Citadel Investment Group and Delaware Investments and all three have advanced academic qualifications at Harvard University. Webb said the Helix quantitative investment model has been under development for many years. "Having access to ...

Bassanese opens ETF consultancy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2009
... also has a first class honours degree in economics from the University of Adelaide and a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University.

Back to school on finance

... philanthropist and former Chase Manhattan Bank chief executive David Rockefeller, who has pledged more than $100 million to Harvard University's endowment fund, the largest donation from a past student in the university's history. Michelle Baltazar

Jay-Z versus Greenspan

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2007
... the world there's no chance of a US recession. However, The Economist noted that days after the 1929 stock market crash, Harvard Economic Society followed this same reassuring theme, as did 95 per cent of American economists in March 2001 at the beginning ...