Harvard fund soars 21.1 percent
296327
The Harvard University endowment yesterday reported a 21.1 percent gain on its investments for fiscal 2004, marking its best year since 2000. But the nation's largest university fund also issued a sober forecast that returns over the next decade will be dramatically lower than in the past 10 years.
176908
New Boston Fund Inc., a growing real estate investment and development firm founded in 1993, bought the 116 Huntington Ave. office building for $68 million in December 2002, selling it for $77 million late last year. Jerry Rappaport Jr., president, spoke recently with Globe reporter Thomas C. Palmer Jr.
534474
Shares of Fortress Investment Group LLC, the first US manager of private-equity and hedge funds to go public, soared 68 percent in their initial day of trading.
750197
Harvard makes its first appearance in this season's Sports Network Division 1-AA football poll at No. 22 following an impressive 41-14 victory over Northeastern Saturday.
501480
Citigroup and Merrill Lynch announced a collective $19.1 billion worth of new investments, with a significant chunk of this money coming from sovereign wealth funds.
722905
The Boston Archdiocese has announced that its largest fundraiser, the Annual Catholic Appeal, raised $13.8 million last year, a 15 percent increase over 2005.  The collection topped its goal by $800,000.
254620
There were big changes in the past year at the Harvard University investment arm that manages the largest higher-education endowment in the world. Nothing changed when it came to Harvard's long record of beating the market.
224782
Harvard is one of a handful of institutions in a joint venture with Google that could be the biggest development to hit the library since the card catalog went digital.
1182
Officials say expanded financial aid at Harvard may push other colleges to shift aid away from low-income students.
15973
Republican Mike Huckabee raised $764,000 for his presidential campaign from April through June and had $437,000 cash on hand at the end of last month, according to financial reports filed Sunday.
723807
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard University is planning a major expansion of its engineering program, including a 67 percent increase in the size of the faculty and the possible establishment of a separate school.
465093
With the new budget year only weeks away, the House has passed a &#36;142.5 billion spending bill that funds some 500 education, health and job training programs.
446968
Evan Harris hit the winning layup with one second on the clock and finished with 18 points last night as Harvard beat Cornell, 65-64, at Lavietes Pavilion.
388312
Assets of the nation's retail money market mutual funds rose by $5.64 billion in the latest week to $875.21 billion, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.
401356
Barack Obama raised $32 million for  his Democratic presidential nominating campaign in January, a  huge haul that aides said will give him the ability to compete  in a potentially long and costly race.
767734
Matt Stehle scored a career-high 25 points and Harvard held off a late second-half run by Dartmouth for a 76-74 victory yesterday in the Ivy League opener for both at Lavietes Pavilion.
580341
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology overtook Yale University to record the best return last year among US schools with the 25 largest endowments, three years after bad bets on technology helped drain $1.4 billion from its fund.