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...letter calls for Harvard to withdraw the $21 million in bonuses paid to managers for the fiscal year ending June 30—even though the endowment posted returns of 8.6 percent during that period, beating the S&P 500’s 13.1 percent fall. In the four months since then, the endowment has decreased in value by 22 percent, while the S&P has declined by 24.6 percent...
...Harvard spent $1.6 billion of its endowment in 2008 to cover operating expenses and capital projects, an increase of nearly 25 percent over previous years and the University’s largest endowment payout ever...
...decade ending 2006, Yale achieved annualized endowment returns of 17.2 percent, beating Harvard’s return of 15.2 percent—a figure that the alums have cited in arguing that high returns can be achieved without high salaries and that external managers may be more cost-efficient...
...ranking was not based on new analysis, said Morse, but on additional data that factored into their August issue on the nation’s best colleges. Harvard’s yield was 76.2 percent last spring, the highest of the 130 schools ranked in the top 50 percentile of US News’ list of best colleges...
...will go out expecting a figure considerably higher than 76.2 percent in case yield rises. If yield goes, up we’re covered, if yield stays where it’s been, we simply take people off the waiting list,” Fitzsimmons said...