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• The next “bubble” will pop sometime

  
  Lucrative Investing — Authority: 141
  You would think that we would learn something from our bubbles bursting every time we see some kind of “new” money making thing that catches on. However, this isn’t the case. As a matter of fact, as a capitalistic nation, we tend to try to make money the greediest and fastest ways imaginable. In the case of the ...
  11 hours ago

• The Ivy Portfolio: How to Invest Like the Top Endowments and Avoid Bear Markets

  
  Daily Gadgets, Computer, and Electronics News — Authority: 158
  A do-it-yourself guide to investing like the renowned Harvard and Yale endowments. The Ivy Portfolio shows step-by-step how to track and mimic the investment strategies of the highly successful
  22 hours ago

• Harvard Law School Suspends Program Giving Students Free Tuition

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  Almost twice as many Harvard students, shown in the law library, signed up as expected, leading in part to the suspension.
  3 days ago

• The Insufficiency of Sound Bites and Short Quotes

  
  The Radical Middle — Authority: 423
  (when insufficiently attacking the tuition tax) After four straight days of running a quarter-page ad against The Mayor’s Student Shakedown Tax — the ad returns for another engagement today; see a scan of it here , and see below for a few thoughts on it — The Pittsburgh Council on Higher Education and ...
  5 days ago

• ABI Displays Empathy

  
  The Endowment Diary — Authority: 100
  ABI Displays Empathy In a rare display of public empathy, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) says that life companies must do more to design products with consumer needs in mind. ABI head of distribution policy, Peter Jolly, said that life companies have failed to properly engage with consumers. " I guess ...
  1 week ago

• The Current State of Private School Financial Aid from the Research Triangle

  
  Boarding School Blog - onBoarding Schools — Authority: 132
  In a “ Record numbers seek financial aid from private schools ,” WRAL contributor Jane Paige touches on FA themes that we’ve been reading about and covering over the past year and a half. FA applications are up; school resources are stretched. Paige does two things that make the article worthy of a quick ...
  1 week ago

• Money, Pt. 4

  
  The Radical Middle — Authority: 423
  (its no surprise that theyre giving none away) At the end of Part Three , I suggested that at least some of our local university administrators, who have no problem raising tuition by more than three percent each year yet seem suddenly dumbstruck at the thought of their poor, imperiled and impoverished students ...
  1 week ago

• Class Actions

  
  The Endowment Diary — Authority: 100
  Class Actions This weeks Queens Speech has raised the possibility of hapless endowment policy holders being able to mount class actions against the life assurance industry. The government proposes to give consumers the right, for the first time, to take "class action" suits through the courts in cases of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Thuwal Journal: A Saudi Gamble to See if Seeds of Change Will Grow

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has given a university $10 billion, hoping it will draw ideas and students.
  2 weeks ago

• What Hath Larry Summers Wrought?

  
  Angry Bear — Authority: 620
  No place to pahk the cah .
  2 weeks ago

• Aviva endowments: Long-running saga with an unhappy ending

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  The value of Sir Jeremy Beechams endowment policy was cut just before it was due to mature, and then the wait started First, global insurance group Aviva raises eyebrows by splashing out up to £20m on an advertising campaign featuring A-list celebrities such as Bruce Willis and Ringo Starr. Then it cuts the value of ...
  3 weeks ago

• U.S. Colleges and Universities Scramble for Foreign Students to Fill Funding Gaps

  
  Today's Top Voted Bookmarks — Authority: 151
  The current growing financial crisis in the United States is really putting a serious strain on many U.S. Colleges and Universities. Even schools previously regarded as well off are feeling the pinches as the value of endowments are reduced due to problems on Wall Street. Many schools report the value of their ...
  3 weeks ago

• Private School Endowments Now Scrutinized

  
  NYC Private Schools Blog — Authority: 132
  The difficult economy has brought attention to something that few people seriously consider when choosing a Private School for their child, the School’s Endowment. While school tuitions may seem pricey to many, the actual costs of educating each student is often more than the tuition covers. In addition, schools ...
  3 weeks ago

• Making money from death, is it moral?

  
  Irish Mortgage Brokers Blog — Authority: 131
  Financial innovation has meant you can make money from many things which may or may not be considered morally correct, there are ’short sellers’ who make money when the price of a stock drops, some people consider that a bad thing, others feel that it is proof of an efficient market working correctly. Then you ...
  3 weeks ago

• Prep Schools Face Cuts in Student Aid

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  The Bunn Library on the campus of the private Lawrenceville School in New Jersey.
  4 weeks ago

• A legacy of leadership, the future of research

  
  Mays Business Online — Authority: 116
  The past, present, and future of Mays Business School were embodied in the three guests of honor as the Benton Cocanougher Chair in Business was dedicated at a luncheon on October 23. Special guests by invitation of Dean Jerry Strawser were in attendance, as well as the men of the hour: Lowry Mays ’57, founder of ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Truth About Connecticut College Financial Aid Awards That Colleges Don’t Want You to Know

  
  Prepare For College — Authority: 159
  Many Connecticut parents feel like they are hit by a city bus when they find out that the many months of work they have done to push their child to do community service, study hard for the SAT and fill out financial aid forms only allows their student to qualify for student loan debt. It is not a good ...
  5 weeks ago

• U.S. Colleges Score Big on Sustainable Transportation

  
  TheCityFix.com — Authority: 502
  Is the recession putting the brakes on sustainable transportation projects? Not at colleges and universities, it seems. The 2010 College Sustainability Report Card, released earlier this month, gave 105 institutions an “A” for transportation. Only ...
  5 weeks ago

• What Type Of Sinrex Results Can I Expect?

  
  Health Fitness 4 Men — Authority: 149
  As long as there have been men, there have been men who’ve wanted to increase the size of their penises.  Male enhancement pills represent an enormous industry, with millions of men worldwide using these products to try to increase their natural endowments. The best of these products are herbal nutritional ...
  5 weeks ago

• The Truth About Connecticut College Financial Aid Awards That Colleges Don’t Want You to Know

  
  Prepare For College — Authority: 159
  Many Connecticut parents feel like they are hit by a city bus when they find out that the many months of work they have done to push their child to do community service, study hard for the SAT and fill out financial aid forms only allows their student to qualify for student loan debt. It is not a good ...
  6 weeks ago

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