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- STANFORD NEWS: Stanford Management Company Report Issued
- STANFORD, Calif. -- The Stanford University Merged Pool MP generated a 6.2 percent investment return for the 12 months ended June 30, 2008, according to the Stanford Management Company SMC. The MP is Stanford's primary investment pool and includes most of the university's endowment and expendable funds, as well as...
- Research articles 2008-09-23
- $50M Gift to Christ Church, Oxford
- Landmark donation will bring major benefits to Christ Church and a PS100m endorsement of Oxford University's long-term investment strategy OXFORD, England -- Michael Moritz and Harriet Heyman have donated $50m (over PS25m) to Christ Church, Oxford. Under the terms of the gift, Christ Church will transfer an additional PS75m...
- Research articles 2008-06-18
- New nonprofit standards favor disclosure
- The Financial Accounting Standards Board is asking its staff to take a position on the management of endowments for not-for-profits. The data would gauge responses on proposals intended to improve the quality of financial reporting of nonprofit-held endowments under the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act, and Enhanced Disclosure....
- Research articles 2008-03-10
- Leveling the playing field on endowments: elite institutions are under pressure to spend more of their endowments to help low-income students
- To improve college affordability for low-income students, some lawmakers and education researchers are beginning to ask the question: Why don't elite colleges spend more of their endowments on need-based financial aid? From the halls of Congress to Ivy League institutions, the size and practices of college endowments are generating...
- Research articles 2008-02-07
- Bravo for Yale and Harvard, but what about the rest?
- How much should a family pay for a college education? Harvard University focused the discussion on college costs with its bold announcement that it is extending financial aid to families earning from $120,000 to $180,000 a year. Costs for tuition, fees and room and board will...
- Research articles 2008-01-23
- Elite schools drive costs
- Harvard and Yale recently have made pronouncements regarding increased middle-class affordability and access. It is well within their rights to do as they wish, but their decisions could increase costs for the thousands of universities without huge endowments, drive up the tuition price, and reduce access for low- and middle-income...
- Research articles 2008-01-18
- Yale To Increase Endowment Payout to Expand Access and Advance Science.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-8 January 2008-Yale University: Yale To Increase Endowment Payout to Expand Access and Advance ScienceC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:08012008 New Haven, Conn. -- Yale will increase its endowment payout by more than one-third in the upcoming fiscal year,...
- Research articles 2008-01-08
- Election year looms: HEA and endowment payments are among the key issues awaiting action
- WITHAN ELECTION YEAR about to begin, all bets are off on what Congress is likely to do on postsecondary education matters and just about everything else when it reconvenes in January. Whatever the issue, political considerations are likely to color its outcome in the year ahead. Even reauthorization of...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- Is more information always better? An experimental study of charitable giving and Hurricane Katrina
- 1. Introduction The devastation resulting from Hurricane Katrina has elicited unprecedented levels of charitable giving on the part of the general public. In just the first 11 weeks following Katrina, private charities donated approximately $2.7 billion, and $62 billion was appropriated by Congress (Frank 2005). Though motivations for giving...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2006 ANNUAL COUNCIL MEETINGS
- PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 20-24 OCTOBER 2006 OUTGOING COUNCIL MEETING The meeting of the Outgoing Council of the Paleontological Society PS was called to order by President David J. Bottjer at 5:10 p.m. on 20 October 2006, in Room 414-415 at the Marriott hotel. Council members William I. Ausich, Derek E. G....
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- Rich variety comes at a price.
- Byline: Jonathan Barrett Jun 26, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Goldman Sachs JBWere has outlined plans to establish a charitable endowment fund. The new product will provide a vehicle for wealthy investors to donate some of their money. The...
- Research articles 2007-06-26
- New proposal on reporting land investments
- The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has issued Land and Other Real Estate Held as Investments by Endowments. Current accounting standards require endowments to report these investments at historical cost, while other entities that exist for the purpose of generating income--such as pension plans--report them at their fair value. This...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- Oxbridge investors fail to win glittering prizes
- Jonathan Davis says that if Britain's ancient universities want to remain world-class, they should take tutorials from Harvard and Yale in how to invest their endowments Devotees of the diaries of Harold Nicolson and Alan Clark will feel that they know the cramped apartments at the Albany in Piccadilly...
- Research articles 2007-04-28
- Special considerations: want to invest in Russian oil stocks or traded endowment policies? Pauline McCallion looks at specialist investment trusts to see what's available and how they work
- A specialist investment trust is one that focuses on a specific area, be that a geographic region or country, or a certain industry, such as mining, financials or biotechnology. The AIC has separated these specialist investment trusts into 12 main sectors (not including the country specialists--see "Specialist Sectors"), to allow...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- Journal of Democracy Book Launch: Electoral Systems and Democracy, What Have We Learned?
- To: Assignment Desk, Daybook EditorsContact: Jane Riley Jacobsen of the National Endowment for Democracy, 202-378-9700 or jane@ned.orgNews Advisory:WHAT: Panel Discussion: Electoral Systems and Democracy, what have we learned?WHEN: Wednesday, Oct. 25, 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.WHERE: National Endowment for Democracy, 1025 F Street, NW Suite 800, Washington, D.C. 20004WHO: Larry...
- Research articles 2006-10-20
- MEMBER CONTRIBUTIONS BUILD ENDOWMENT
- From the outset, the goal of the AAUP's capital campaign, the Campaign for the Common Good, has been to create an endowment fund that would help to support the operating costs of the Association. Like most membership organizations, the AAUP has depended almost exclusively on membership dues to fund its...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- LBS set to help share skills with trust chiefs.
- ADDRESSING the challenges of investing endowments and managing investments is the aim of a newly-launched programme. According to research, the average British charity puts more than 70 per cent of its assets into listed equities, and the London Business School has set up Foundation...
- Research articles 2006-04-27
- Solving the financial planning: puzzle getting all the planning pieces together helps position institutions for a future that's fiscally fit
- IN 2004, ROLLINS COLLEGE IN WINTER PARK, Fla., received an amazing gift. George Cornell--who is a university alumnus and philanthropist, a relative of the founder of Cornell University, and the son of one of the first employees at IBM--left the liberal arts college $93 million in his will when he...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- Duke University received a $75 million gift from the Duke Endowment of Charlotte for student financial aid
- Duke University (N.C.) received a $75 million gift from the Duke Endowment of Charlotte for student financial aid. This is the largest single gift made by the endowment in its 81-year history and the largest single gift ever received by the university. The Duke Endowment gift will be used as...
- Research articles 2005-11-03
- Investment trust performance tables
- What the tables show The figures show the value of 100 [pounds sterling] over six months, one, three, five and ten years to 30 September 2005, on a midmarket basis with net incm reinvested. Funds are listed by sector so that you can compare them against trusts with similar...
- Research articles 2005-11-01
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