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...that Fawcett's allure decayed noticeably in her middle years. Her fine features and figure, augmented by the subtlest surgery, allowed her to defy age and gravity. That was evident when she posed nude for a portfolio in the December 1995 Playboy, the magazine's best-selling issue of the '90s, and in Robert Altman's Dr. T & the Women (2000) she played a mad housewife who walks naked through a mall fountain. She kept making films, and for The Apostle, as the frazzled wife of preacher Robert Duvall, she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award instead...
...Peter L. Bernstein was 70 and had led a full life. An intelligence officer during World War II, he later taught economics, ran an investment firm and edited the wonky but influential Journal of Portfolio Management as a flood of new academic research transformed investing in the 1970s...
Harvard Management Company, which oversees the University's multi-billion dollar endowment, will lose Marc Seidner, a top fixed-income portfolio manager, at the end of the month, according to several media reports...
...year in which nearly all markets plummeted simultaneously due to unprecedented financial turmoil, domestic bonds may have been one of the few well-performing assets in Harvard's investment portfolio. Over the past year, the Dow Jones CBOT Treasury Index—a real-time, broad-based indicator of bond market performance—returned over 8 percent, while the S&P 500, which HMC often cites in comparisons with its own endowment performance, dropped over 30 percent...
...financial report also noted that a combination of internal and external investment managers oversee HMC's domestic bond portfolio, focusing on arbitrage situations—or buying inexpensive securities while simultaneously selling overvalued securities of similar characteristics. While internal managers "sharply" outperformed their benchmark in 2008, the report said that external managers delivered mixed results...