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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 ...

Insto investors down but not out

... institutional investors fell from 117.1 to 106 points and for European investors, the figure fell from 86.6 to 82.3 points. Harvard University professor Ken Froot, who was involved in the research, said, "The behavior of institutional investors this ...

Harvard Endowment Fund chief quits

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2007
Mohamed El-Erian, chief executive of Harvard Management Company (HMC) and manager of the $41.5 billion Harvard Endowment Fund, has announced his resignation, effective at the end of 2007. He will return to California-based Pacific Investment Management ...

QIC awards $570m mandate to US endowment fund

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2007
... 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 chief ...

Fidelity responds to Darfur campaign

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2007
... investment firms must replicate Fidelity's recent actions," said Rubenstein. The SDC is also targeting Berkshire-Hathaway. Harvard University pulled its investment funds out of Sudan in 2005. Illustrating the strength of the campaign, the SDC released ...

Government must intervene more to promote savings: CEDA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
... to CEDA, including senior executives and academics from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Columbia University and Harvard University. "The tectonic forces of demography in the era ahead will redefine the status and wellbeing of countries," said ...

Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards 2006

... Grand Ballroom of the Stamford Plaza in Double Bay, Sydney. The crowd was entertained by comedian Rodney Marks posing as a Harvard academic professor on the evening. Rainmaker Information handed out 13 awards namely Marketer of the Year, Business Development ...