{"id":6882,"date":"2010-08-23T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T22:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=6882"},"modified":"2010-08-16T14:06:46","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T12:06:46","slug":"harvard-university-fund-sells-all-israel-holdings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/08\/harvard-university-fund-sells-all-israel-holdings\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard University Fund Sells All Israel Holdings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>No reason for the sale was mentioned in the report to the SEC.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In another blow to Israeli shares, the Harvard Management Company notified the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday [13 Aug 2010] that it had sold all its holdings in Israeli companies during the second quarter of 2010. No reason for the sale was mentioned. The Harvard Management Company manages Harvard University&#8217;s endowment.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard Management Company stated in its 13-F Form that it sold 483,590 shares in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tevapharm.com\/\"  target=\"new\">Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.<\/a> (Nasdaq: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"javascript:viewInstrument('TEVA',11,'EN')\">TEVA<\/a>; TASE: <a href=\"javascript:viewInstrument('629014',45,'EN')\">TEVA<\/a>) for $30.5 million; 52,360 shares in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nice.com\/\"  target=\"new\">NICE Systems Ltd.<\/a> (Nasdaq: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"javascript:viewInstrument('NICE',11,'EN')\">NICE<\/a>; TASE: <a href=\"javascript:viewInstrument('273011',45,'EN')\">NICE<\/a>) for $1.67 million; 102,940 shares in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.checkpoint.com\/\"  target=\"new\">Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.<\/a> (Nasdaq: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"javascript:viewInstrument('CHKP',11,'EN')\">CHKP<\/a>) for $3.6 million; 32,400 shares in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cellcom.co.il\/\"  target=\"new\">Cellcom Israel Ltd.<\/a> (NYSE:<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"javascript:viewInstrument('CEL',4,'EN')\">CEL<\/a>; TASE:<a href=\"javascript:viewInstrument('11015349',45,'EN')\">CEL<\/a>) for $1.1 million, and 80,000 <a href=\"http:\/\/orange.co.il\/\"  target=\"new\">Partner Communications Ltd.<\/a> (Nasdaq: <a href=\"javascript:viewInstrument('PTNR',11,'EN')\">PTNR<\/a>; TASE: <a href=\"javascript:viewInstrument('1083484',45,'EN')\">PTNR<\/a>) shares for $1.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard Management Company&#8217;s 13-F Form shows some interesting investments. Its two largest holdings, each worth $295 million, are in iShares ETFs, one on Chinese equities, and the other on emerging markets. Harvard also owns $181 million in a Brazilian ETF.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 Copyright of Globes Publisher Itonut (1983) Ltd. 2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p>GO TO ORIGINAL \u2013 GLOBES ONLINE<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globes.co.il\/serveen\/globes\/docview.asp?did=1000581912\" >http:\/\/www.globes.co.il\/serveen\/globes\/docview.asp?did=1000581912<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Join the BDS-Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions<\/em><\/span> <\/strong>campaign to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation, the apartheid wall, and its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>DON&#8217;T BUY<\/strong><\/span> products whose <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>BARCODE<\/strong><strong> STARTS WITH<\/strong> <strong>729<\/strong><\/span>, which indicates that it is produced in Israel. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>7 2 9: BOYCOTT!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No reason for the sale was mentioned in the report to the SEC. In another blow to Israeli shares, the Harvard Management Company notified the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday [13 Aug 2010] that it had sold all its holdings in Israeli companies during the second quarter of 2010. No reason for the sale was mentioned. The Harvard Management Company manages Harvard University&#8217;s endowment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglo-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}