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The Endowments Invest In Timber, Should You?

BY ROGER NUSBAUM | MAY 28, 2009 | 11:53 AM | 0 COMMENTS

I admit to having a fascination with the asset allocation models used by large college endowments and similar pools of capital. I do not believe what these funds do can be emulated but I do believe there is much to learn from what they do. My introduction to these funds was an article from I don’t know how far back about then Harvard Management Company CEO Jack Meyer who was extolling the diversification virtues of timberland.

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