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Source: topics.nytimes.com --- 47 days ago
THE good news for students and their parents facing high tuition bills is that the student government at Wesleyan University voted last month to establish an endowment to reduce costs at the liberal arts university in Middletown. ... Source: www.businessweek.com --- 36 days ago
Moves to make rich schools spend more of their megabucks are gaining traction, and tax authorities spy a new source of revenue ... Source: www.businessweek.com --- 34 days ago
Moves to make rich schools spend more of their megabucks are gaining traction, and tax authorities spy a new source of revenue ... Source: blogs.wsj.com --- 51 days ago
Annelena Lobb has this report on the prowess of big Endowments. What can retail investors borrow from the money-management strategies of high-flying foundations and university Endowments? Not much, actually. Laurance Hoagland, CIO of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, in a conversation earlier this week, discussed certain advantages large Endowments have over smaller investors. The ability to [...] ... Source: www.marketwatch.com --- 47 days ago
BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Financial adviser Christiane Delessert is starting to consider her own retirement. As one of her last professional goals in counseling clients, she's on a mission to get individuals to stop giving money to Harvard University. ... Source: www-tech.mit.edu --- 57 days ago
By Peter Schworm and Matt Viser THE BOSTON GLOBE Massachusetts lawmakers desperate for additional revenue are eyeing the Endowments of deep-pocketed private colleges to bolster the state’s coffers by more than $1 billion a year, asserting that the schools’ rising fortunes undercut their nonprofit status. ... Source: www.ft.com --- 38 days ago
Money raised by British universities from Endowments and investments rose by 13 per cent last year, the fastest growth for more than a decade ... Source: www.springerlink.com --- 58 days ago
Abstract The theoretical and empirical literature on parental investment focuses on whether child-specific parental investments reinforce or compensate for a child’s initial Endowments. However, many parental investments, such as neighborhood quality and family size and structure, are shared wholly or in part among all children in a household. The empirical results of this paper imply that such household parental investments compensate for low Endowments, as proxied by low birth weight. Content Type Journal Article DOI 10.1007/s11150-008-9035-4 Authors David S. Loughran, RAND Corporation 1776 Main St. Santa Monica CA 90407 USA Ashlesha Datar, RAND Corporation 1776 Main St. Santa Monica CA 90407 USA M. Rebecca Kilburn, RAND Corporation 1776 Main St. Santa Monica CA 90407 USA Journal Review of Economics of the Household Online ISSN 1573-7152 Print ISSN 1569-5239 ... Source: theboard.byu.edu --- 30 days ago
Posted on Fri 6 Jun 2008. Follow the link for the full question & answer. ... Source: csmonitor.com --- 48 days ago
A Massachusetts proposal, the first of its kind, would impose a 2.5 percent tax on the portion of Endowments above $1 billion. ... Source: www.alternet.org --- 62 days ago
Morgan Simon of the Responsible Endowment Coalition is helping student activists across the U.S. leverage their school Endowments. ... Source: poynter.org --- 26 days ago
Chronicle of Higher Education That's what New York Times executive editor Bill Keller told college and university leaders on Monday. More quotes: * "For all the woes besetting our business, I believe in my heart that newspapers will be around for a long time," even if they aren't always delivered "as that lovable old-fashioned bundle of ink and cellulose." * When editors get together, "People ask each other 'How are you?' in a tone you would use for a friend who had just emerged fro ...
Source: chronicle.com --- 53 days ago
A Congressman wants to limit donations of funds from individual retirement accounts. ... Source: www.portfolio.com --- 55 days ago
The debate over the proposed tax on Harvard's endowment continues, with my favorite contribution coming from one of Brad DeLong's commenters: Harvard is an investment bank with a mom-and-pop non-profit enterprise attached to it for tax purposes. It's a good point: what would happen if Goldman Sachs decided to buy back all its shares, start up a small university in Boston, and declare itself an endowment? DeLong's point is more substantive, and concentrates on universities as providers of educational services: by that light, Harvard has been much less successful than, say, the University of California. John Gapper concentrates more on universities as centers of "research expertise and prestige", which is all well and good but isn't quite as obviously reason to exempt them from taxes. And this argument of Gapper's just doesn't work for me at all: The reality is that Harvard and the other universities contribute an enormous amount to Boston and Massachusetts and it is not as if they are squirreling their money away in Swiss bank accounts. Eventually, it will flow back to benefit the institution. My problem with the Harvard endowment is that to all intents and purposes it is squirreling its money away in a (very high-yielding) Swiss bank account, and that only a tiny proportion of it ever flows back to benefit the institution. Gapper's argument is far too trickle-down in feeling for my liking: you ... Source: www.24-7pressrelease.com --- 18 days ago
Fairinvestment.co.uk warn 86 per cent of the 10 million mortgage endowment policies thought to have been sold in the UK will not be enough to pay off mortgage ... Source: www.24-7pressrelease.com --- 32 days ago
Endowments, sovereign wealth funds and large global hedge funds come back to Japan - What do they see? Japan based hedge fund managers confident: best investments found now. ... Source: www.cato.org --- 47 days ago
"With nine of its colleges and universities boasting Endowments above $1 billion, Massachusetts is now center stage in the emerging national debate over whether wealthy schools are doing enough to justify their tax-exempt status," The Christian Science Monitor reports. "The reason for the spotlight: a first-of-its-kind proposal to tax those large Endowments in the Bay State." In the Cato-at-Liberty blog post " Keeping Up Appearances in Higher Education ," Neal McCluskey, associate director of Cato's Center for Educational Freedom, writes: "Politicians use higher education as one of their greatest sources of middle-class bribery, and all the aid they lavish on students is almost certainly a much greater tuition inflator than tight-fisted endowment managers. Moreover, while Harvard has a ton of money, very few of the nation's over four-thousand degree-granting institutions have even close to the kingly Crimson sum: only 19 have sufficiently hefty Endowments to buy even one aircraft carrier, only 76 have Endowments exceeding $1 billion, and most have either small Endowments or none at all." ... Source: www.pionline.com --- 66 days ago
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University World News released a special report on higher education investments and Endowments. As higher education costs continue to rise and government financial support wanes, universities and stakeholders around the world are actively seeking other streams of funding. Here are a few articles highlighting the issue of alternative higher education funding from the report: UK: Learning from the States South Africa: Third Stream Income a New Priority New Zealand: Government Scheme Encouraged Donations Australia: Endowments a Fraction of Harvard's ...