The Harvard Management Company, like the markets in which the endowment invests, has experienced cyclical performance behavior. While the 12% returns that their asset managers have generated over the past 20 years is significantly above average, lately there has been trouble. Harvard Management’s strong 20-year performance is largely due to Jack Meyer Harvard Management had at one time thrived in the 1990s under the leadership of Jack Meyer, who operated the endowment for 15 years. He transformed the endowment into a hedge fund structure, hiring proprietary traders to work inside the firm rather than allocate money entirely to outside money…
Harvard Management, Trailing Ivy League Neighbors, Makes Abrupt Changes
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.
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