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...report also found that universities increased their use of “alternative strategies”—branching into private equity, real estate, and commodities??and held more cash and short-term securities in 2009 compared to 2008. The percentage of holdings invested in both domestic and international equities declined on average across universities...
...that the United States is facing major problems in the energy sector, especially the supply of petroleum products for the transportation sector. Since 2003, the price of oil futures contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX)–the largest coordinated global market for futures trading in commodities??has more than tripled. This major increase in fuel costs has had a seriously detrimental effect on the American economy, causing enormous demand destruction and adversely affecting GDP growth. But despite the passionate advocacy of public figures such as Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska and House Minority Leader...
Harvard’s stellar performance stemmed from an investment mix that stressed commodities??such as oil, metals, and food—over U.S. stocks, which have been in free fall for months...
While Harvard invests only 8 percent of its endowment in commodities, the value of those holdings jumped dramatically over the period. Harvard’s return on “real assets”—approximately half of which is composed of commodities??climbed 35.8 percent during that time...
Prices for commodities??goods such as copper, wheat, or oil—jumped by almost a quarter for the first 10 months of the fiscal year, according to the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index. The letter, released last August, estimated Harvard's investment in commodities at 17 percent of the endowment for fiscal year 2008, making it their single largest investment by asset class. That number reflects a near tripling of the share of the endowment invested in commodities since...