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Harvard is sitting on top of a $54 BILLION hedge fund they call an “Endowment” that they pay zero taxes on

August 24, 2022 11:29 pm

Harvard is sitting on top of a $54 BILLION hedge fund they call an "Endowment" that they pay zero taxes on Yale has $31 Billion. Stanford $29 Billion. Princeton $26 Billion. "Elite" Schools sit on a goldmine but the Middle …

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The sunk cost fallacy, endowment effect, and other behaviors that lead to dumb money mistakes

October 29, 2018 9:00 pm

by Lewsk55 Interesting video on the logical fallacies that can lead to dumb financial decisions: I thought the concept of the “endowment effect” was useful — the tendency for us to assign more value to the things we already own/paid …

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Beating Goliath: A Small College’s Endowment Manager Beat Harvard With Index Funds

May 13, 2018 10:03 pm

by andthenisawtheblood Article link. Full Text: From his home office in Charlotte, one of the most successful investors in higher education plies his trade in blissful obscurity. Bill Abt employs no stable of hotshot bond traders. He doesn’t dabble in …

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