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Using the aforementioned highly sophisticated (arbitrary) formulaic procedure, the total estimated value of a gift to rename the University, given the scarcity of previous calculations of this nature, would be the $8 billion due to loss of donations combined with the total value of $115 billion inherent in the Harvard...
Stansky: Sure, if the opportunity was good. Magellan has had big investments in bonds. Look at what Peter Lynch did in the early '80s. Interest rates were in the mid-teens. He was as aggressive as you could have been. If bonds are yielding two times the long-term return...
These same two teams meet today in Hanover for another twinbill. Harvard can clinch the division title outright with a split or better. Should the Crimson lose both games, however, it will play Yale in a one-game playoff to determine the division-winner: 25 wins marks Harvard's highest...
One lower-risk alternative is investing in real estate through publicly traded companies known as Real Estate Investment Trusts, or REITs. These stocks earned a nasty reputation in the '70s and '80s, when REITs loaded up with debt and used the proceeds to invest largely in the higher-yielding debt...
If you're running for cover, consider Treasury bonds, now yielding more than 7%, or T-bond funds. "That's an extraordinary giveaway with inflation below 2%," says Charles Clough, chief strategist at Merrill Lynch. Commercial real estate investment trusts (REITS), with their 6%-plus yields and healthy underpinnings of...