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While it is appropriate for Harvard to hire portfolio experts to manage its funds, it is not appropriate for them to gamble with the educational mission and future of Harvard. Over the past decade, these experts have climbed out of the back seat and begun to steer Harvard’s economic course...
...investment strategies generated an average annual return of 8.9 percent over the past 10 years, including last year’s financial crisis—far exceeding the annualized 1.5 percent return that would have been generated by a “plain vanilla” portfolio of stocks and bonds...
...Certainly our endowment investment model was successful for quite some time,” Rothenberg said to the Gazette. “But I think, yes, there are some changes already under way to increase flexibility, reduce leverage, and better position [Harvard’s] portfolio for the future...
...assumed the risks of those loans. And now that a growing number of people have stopped paying their mortgages, the FHA has had to pay out more in claims that it forecast. The agency has just $3.6 billion on hand to cover any unexpected losses in its $685 billion portfolio. That paltry level of reserve funding, less than is mandated by the government, has left some members of Congress in a twitchy mood and some onlookers to wonder if the FHA will eventually need a massive infusion of cash. (See high-end homes that won't sell...
...good chunk of the FHA's portfolio, though - nearly 40% - is made up of loans written over the past 12 months. In a way, that's a boon, since lenders have tightened their standards and as a result have sent higher-quality loans to the FHA. During the housing boom, more than a third of the loans the agency insured went to subprime borrowers; today, fewer than...