HARVARD MANAGEMENT COMPANY Answer 1: The general objective of HMC was to try to preserve the real value of the endowment and its income distribution in perpetuity. In the last years the endowment spending was on average 4.6%, annual gifts averaged about 1.5%, and Harvard expenses continued to grow at a rate of 3% above CPI. If in the long run the endowment was able to earn a 6% to 6.5% average return over the CPI inflation rate the university could spend 4.5% to 5% of the endowment. The 6.25% is
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Harvard Management Company (HMC) has successfully managed Harvard University’s endowment over the last decades. The active management has added billions of dollars in value; nevertheless, CEO Jane Mendillo wants to evaluate the allocation of the portfolio before the next board meeting, looking at liquidity, risk profile, and type of management. HMC’s main objective is to preserve the real value of the endowment and its income distribution in perpetuity. In order to do this, they require annual real
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Case Study II Weighted Average Cost of Capital Company chosen in the S&P 500 : Name HEINZ Ticker HNZ Price 72.47 A. Estimating the proportion of debt D /D+E Market capitalization = number of shares * share price = 320,650 millions*72.47 E = 23.24 billions Working capital = Total current asset – Total current liabilities = 1234.275 millions The working capital being positive, implies that all the cash and cash equivalent is considered as excess cash and should be deducted
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Summary of Harvard Management Company (2010) By: Satrio Abi and Yanuar Budi Baskoro * Harvard Management Company Introduction: Harvard Management Company is a company which built by Harvard University itself. That means HMC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard University. The company built for managing the financial matter and development of the university. Because the company is wholly owned by Harvard University, the Directors of HMC is directly choosen by President and Fellow of
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Financial Markets Q1. HMC’s aims to provide relatively predictable cash flows from the endowment to the different schools within the university. As stated in the case, “the general objective was to preserve the real value (adjusted for Harvard’s expense growth) of the endowment and its income distribution in perpetuity”. In recent years, the payout ratio (Endowment spending as a % of total Endowment value) has had a target range of 4.5% to 5.0%. In the case’s example, the average growth rate
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1.¿En qué se diferencian los bonos nominales del tesoro americano de los bonos TIPS? En general la diferencia es que los TIPS es un instrumento cuyos flujos están indexados a la tasa de inflación, mientras que los nominales no lo están. 2. ¿Cómo afecta la inflación a los pagos de cupón y principal de un bono nominal? Los bonos nominales son bonos cuyos pagos no están ajustados por inflación por lo que frente a aumento de la inflación, los pagos tanto del cupón como el principal tendrán un menor
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Financial Markets Q1. HMC’s aims to provide relatively predictable cash flows from the endowment to the different schools within the university. As stated in the case, “the general objective was to preserve the real value (adjusted for Harvard’s expense growth) of the endowment and its income distribution in perpetuity”. In recent years, the payout ratio (Endowment spending as a % of total Endowment value) has had a target range of 4.5% to 5.0%. In the case’s example, the average growth rate
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9 -2 1 1 -0 0 4 REV: MAY 30, 2012 ANDRÉ PEROLD ERIK STAFFORD Harvard Management Company (2010) In February 2010, Jane Mendillo gazed out of her 16th-floor office window at a cold Boston Harbor and reflected on the set of issues facing Harvard Management Company (HMC). Since her return to HMC as CEO in July 2008, Mendillo had successfully managed the endowment through the worst financial markets crisis in a generation. But that period had brought to the fore multiple issues facing Harvard’s
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