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...It was patched up with plywood, leading to it being jokily referred to as the world’s tallest timber skyscraper....
...In the late-Victorian era, the property belonged to William Dodge James, of American descent, who ran it from his fortune in American mines and timber....
...The foundation’s trustees attend to the endowment, whose income, now $3.8m, maintains the gardens for some 40,000 paying visitors a year....
...Red rocks in left background, a low hill centre, a timber stable, right. Right, in half light, four men and a boy holding a hound. Behind, a stable of hurdles. Landscape background....
...She also warned that pension fund trustees would find themselves stretched by the challenge of identifying winners and losers among industrial sectors and asset classes....
...managed timber fund....
...The timber industry also warned at the time that ministers were hugely overestimating the price which the government could receive for the forests....
...The suit was filed by trustees of the Labourers’ Pension Fund of Central and Eastern Canada and the trustees of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 793 Pension Plan for Operating Engineers...
...The timber firm can’t even keep its own deadlines, never mind those of bondholders. Sino’s third quarter results were due on Thursday, along with a $10m interest payment on convertible notes....
...But some school trustees raised concerns that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is....
.... ● Pictet Funds will this week add an Agriculture fund to its range of thematic products, which already contains offerings in sectors such as water, timber and clean energy....
...From the perspective of the pension fund trustees and their investment managers, such a perspective is understandable....
...He tells the tale of Harvard Management Company’s investment in timber....
...He has become the board of trustees’ favourite, a reliable problem-solver....
...Despite his love of the place, James, the inheritor of an American railway and timber fortune, was famously chaotic, and he failed to leave sufficient money for the upkeep of the gardens....
...Assets such as private equity and timber have the added advantage that they are uncorrelated. Is this something you should try at home? Swensen thinks not....
...Assets such as private equity and timber have the added advantage that they are totally uncorrelated. Is this something you should try at home? Swensen thinks not....
...Where do UK pension fund trustees go from here?...
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