Talk:Harvard University endowment/Archives/2016

[first hand information?]
Has anybody first hand information on the HMC? I haven t find it on the internet. So if somebody could past their address, I would be very grateful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.169.133.60 (talk • contribs) 31 October 2006‎ (UTC)

[annualized endowment return]
The annualized endowment return during his 15 year tenure was 21 % All university endowments change due to: gifts, disbursements, income (interim payments plus capital gains, or total return). While it may be true that the endowment grew at 21% per annum (in fact the figures cited indicate an annual exponential (as these things are typically measured) rate of 11.23751%), the change cited doesn't differentiate between earnings (management skill), and gifts/disbursements. Thus the return cited isn't really return, but, rather, is growth. In short, no investment professional would use the term return in this context. Wolvve85 18:02, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[official website]
hmc.harvard.edu —Preceding unsigned comment added by Akoticha (talk • contribs) 14:46, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:45, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[misleading and wrong]
A lot of misleading and wrong information on this page.

- There is no "Harvard University Endowment Fund." Harvard's endowment consists of about 11,000 individual funds. Not all of them are directly managed by HMC.

- "which enables Harvard to invest in a wide variety of traditional to unconventional stocks and bonds" - absolutely no evidence for "unconventional stocks and bonds" anywhere.

- "which come from donations made by its alumni" - Wrong. Contributions to funds that make up the endowment come from a wide array of sources, not just alumni.

- "The annualized endowment return during his 15 year tenure was 21%" - again, completely wrong, as Wolvve85 pointed out below. The endowment growth includes investment returns and new contributions, as well as payouts from the endowment.

Current endowment = Last year's endowment + Investment returns + New contributions - Payouts

HMC is responsible only for the "Investment returns" part of the equation. There is no way you can figure out what that is just by looking at the endowment size each year.

http://www.hno.harvard.edu/guide/finance/index.html

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/08.23/99-endowment.html

- RonnyO75 20:39, 29 February 2008 (UTC) 18:53, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[Seidner left HMC in June 2009]
Apologies - I thought I knew how to insert links, but don't appear to be able to do so properly. I added language noting the Marc Seidner left HMC in June 2009 according to the WSJ, and was hired by PIMCO in August 2009, according to PIMCO, as reported by the Associated Press and the LA Times. Link to the WSJ article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124568674308337519.html; link to the LA Times article: http://www.latimes.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-us-pimco-personnel,0,7976422.story —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.163.42.132 (talk) 13:29, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

harvard endowment stripmined by indicted persons
should it be included in this wiki article that the HMC endowment is being used to funnel funds to funds run by pals with no financial expertise and who are indicted persons ? and so stripmining the endowment ?  and who are indicted — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.186.56.245 (talk • contribs) 06:41, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Charitable? how wealthy?
Why "See also" List of wealthiest charitable foundations? HMC is not listed there. Is that because it is not "charitable" but an ordinary profit-seeking business (capitalist)? Its status should be explained in the lead and/or infobox.

The charitables list shows that HMC would be second or third wealthiest in the world depending on the value of the Euro, clearly behind only Bill and Melinda Gates. That is interesting and should be covered in the text, not left for the few who do "See also" and examine the target list.

Rank second or third relies on wealth $36.4 billion (AUM, Assets under management) as stated in the infobox. But we also say that is "the university's $36.4 billion endowment" (lead) and "The company directly manages about one third of the total endowment portfolio" (section 1 lead).

--P64 (talk) 21:10, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Article name
Please see Talk:Harvard University regarding the recent move from Harvard Management Company to Harvard University endowment. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 06:46, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Scope and name
The title suggest that his is now about the endowment, but the content says otherwise. I suggest immediate introduction of content about the endowment itself. And what about the infobox? What about the infobox image? Things are not right as they are now. That is for sure. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:44, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * You said you wanted to start an article on the H endowment, so I gave you a natural place to do it.  E Eng  03:04, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi User:EEng. Touche! :) But, I wanted to prepare and I asked at business projects for guidance. I don't know how to put it together just yet. Perhaps the page move was a bit premature. I'm not sure what to do now. Also, I will be away for a couple of days maybe. Please advise. Cheers. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 03:10, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * P.S. How does one ping you? Your username is confusing. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 03:11, 12 April 2016 (UTC)