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In Charity Tax Filing, a Glimpse of Goldman

The latest tax filing for Goldman Sachs’s foundation is as thick as a phone book. The list of trades is more than 200 pages, single spaced. Goldman, it seems, invests like no other, even for its own charity. “I have never seen anything like it,” said ...

From GERALDINE FABRIKANT, The New York Times,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Goldman Sachs,  Bloomberg News,  Lloyd C. Blankfein

Samuel Heyman, a Corporate Raider, Dies at 70

Samuel J. Heyman, who stood out as a corporate raider who preferred to hold on to companies he bought and run them rather that sell them for a quick profit, died Sunday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. He was 70. Mr. Heyman’s death was confirmed ...

From GERALDINE FABRIKANT, The New York Times,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Harvard University,  U.S. Department of Justice,  Robert F. Kennedy,  Mark Rothko

Prep Schools Face Cuts in Student Aid

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. For now, the nation’s biggest preparatory schools are protecting students like Ivy Alphonse-Leja, who depends on financial aid to attend the Lawrenceville School. “There was never a concern that I could not come back next year,” she ...

From GERALDINE FABRIKANT, The New York Times,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Lawrenceville School

Cultured Traveler: Rare Books Don’t Always Live in Glass Cases

STANDING among the 10,000 rare books in the stacks of the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Bruce Bradley, the director of the history of science special collections, pulls out a copy of “The Starry Messenger,” the revelatory book in which Galileo ...

From GERALDINE FABRIKANT, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: University of California, Los Angeles,  Benjamin Franklin,  Oscar Wilde,  Isaac Newton,  Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lionel Pincus, Who Helped Bring Investors to Private Equity, Dies at 78

Lionel Irwin Pincus, who built Warburg Pincus into a leading Wall Street firm and played a role in changing federal regulations on investing, died Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 78. In the 1960s, Mr. Pincus opened Lionel I. Pincus & Company, ...

From GERALDINE FABRIKANT, The New York Times,  11 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Warburg Pincus,  Lionel Pincus,  Humana Inc.,  Mattel, Inc.,  University of Pennsylvania

Debt Trips Up Hinckley, Venerable Maine Yacht Maker

SOUTHWEST HARBOR, Me. David Rockefeller Sr. ordered a new boat last year, a $3 million 55-foot powerboat. We always built a high-quality product, said Bob Hinckley. A Hinckley yacht in Southwest Harbor, Me. The company has run a tighter ship, with ...

From GERALDINE FABRIKANT, The New York Times,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: David Rockefeller

Big Universities Report Steep Investment Losses

Steep investment losses have caused painful cutbacks at some of the nation’s best known universities this year and have prompted questions about whether their endowments are taking too much risk. But as the schools, one by one, disclose their numbers, ...

From GERALDINE FABRIKANT, The New York Times,  22 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Harvard Endowment Falls 27.3%

Harvard’s endowment tumbled 27.3 percent in its latest fiscal year, largely because of problems with its private equity and hedge fund portfolios, lopping off $10 billion and shrinking its portfolio to $26 billion. The loss is the biggest percentage ...

From GERALDINE FABRIKANT, The New York Times,  10 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University

Winslow Homer’s Maine

DOWN a narrow road that traces the Atlantic shore in southern Maine sits a series of sprawling shingled homes with names like Twainways, Daisy Sailer and Juniper Ledge. Many are weather-beaten, with gardens of day lilies, hydrangeas and lilacs grown a ...

From GERALDINE FABRIKANT, New York Times Travel,  2 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Winslow Homer

Pension Advisers for G.M. Are Part of Pay Czar’s Review

Four years after she took over management of the General Motors pension plans, Nancy Everett finds herself in an unexpected controversy. Performance is not her problem. The G.M. pension fund has withstood the unforgiving financial markets of the last ...

From GERALDINE FABRIKANT, The New York Times,  31 Aug 2009

Related Topics: General Motors,  American International Group,  Citigroup,  Xerox

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