-
One factor that the study quantifies is human-capital endowment, meaning the brainpower created by parents, formal education and training, and on-the-job learning.
ECONOMIST: The brainpower famine begins to bite
-
Colleges with limited endowment capital unmercifully raise tuition 4 to 5 percent, per annum.
FORBES: Cramer, Soros And The Dumbing Down Of Financial Journalism
-
It involves comparing the interest and premiums you have actually paid on your endowment mortgage with the interest and capital repayments you would have paid on an equivalent repayment mortgage.
BBC: NEWS | Business | Ask the expert special: Endowments
-
But as authors William Chandler and Holly Gwin explain in a recent study for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, China's capital markets are extremely small for a country its size.
FORBES: China's Power Problem
-
Don Fehrs, head of research at Evanston Capital Management, a hedge fund and a former head of Cornell's endowment thinks it is becoming harder for them to maintain their advantage because, predictably, copycat investors have piled into areas they once had largely to themselves.
ECONOMIST: What makes America's colleges such clever investors?