Harvard University

June 19th, 2009

Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. It is also the first and oldest corporation in North America. Harvard University is made up of ten schools.

Initially called “New College” or “the college at New Towne”, the institution was renamed Harvard College on March 13, 1639. It was named after a young clergyman named John Harvard, who bequeathed the College his library of four hundred books and ?779 (which was half of his estate). The earliest known official reference to Harvard as a “university” occurs in the new Massachusetts Constitution of 1780.

During his 40-year tenure as Harvard president (1869–1909), Charles William Eliot radically transformed Harvard into the pattern of the modern research university. Eliot’s reforms included elective courses, small classes, and entrance examinations. The Harvard model influenced American education nationally, at both college and secondary levels.

Harvard is consistently ranked at or near the top of international college and university rankings, and has the second-largest financial endowment of any non-profit organization (behind the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), standing at $28.8 billion as of 2008. Harvard and Yale have been rivals in academics, rowing, and football for most of their history, competing annually in The Game and the Harvard-Yale Regatta. Read the rest of this entry »

American University

June 19th, 2009

American University (AU) is a private United Methodist-affiliated research university in Washington, D.C., USA, the main campus of which comes to a corner at the intersection of Nebraska and Massachusetts Avenues at Ward Circle, straddling the Spring Valley, Wesley Heights, and American University Park neighborhoods of Northwest. Roughly 6,000 undergraduate students and 2,000 graduate students are currently enrolled. Though there is sometimes confusion, American University is separate from most “American Universities” around the world.

It is served by the Tenleytown-AU station on the Washington Metro subway line, which is located roughly one mile from the main campus in the neighborhood of Tenleytown. AU is a member of the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area, allowing students to enroll in courses offered by other member institutions and students at other member institutions to enroll in courses at AU. A member of the Division I Patriot League, its sports teams compete as the American University Eagles. Read the rest of this entry »

善用ETF巧投股市

June 18th, 2009

“如果不是那种希望资金翻番的稳健型投资者,又不会选择个股,还不如买ETF。只要跟上市场的节奏,收益还会很不错的。”一位市场人士如此建议。

近期大盘指数在年线附近的盘整,让投资者对A股短期内的走势多了一份疑问和迷茫,尽管大部分市场人士指出A股的中期向好趋势不变,但是如何在其中找出可以和大盘“比翼齐飞”甚至跑赢股指的个股,却依然是众多投资者的难题。在这种无法确定具体个股,甚至是板块走势的情况下,ETF成为投资者一种可以根据经济大趋势进行波段投资的一种选择。

ETF是英文全称Exchange Traded Fund的缩写,在目前我国的市场中,就是指在交易所上市交易的开放式指数基金。据光大银行上海分行理财师马箖介绍,ETF是一种跟踪“标的指数”变化,且在交易所上市的开放式基金,投资者可以像买卖股票那样,通过买卖ETF,从而实现对指数的买卖。所以ETF可以理解为“股票化的指数投资产品”。和市场上一般的指数基金相比,ETF具有高流动性、费用更低、交易更灵活的特点。“由于ETF在场内交易,因此就跟买卖股票一样方便;ETF的交易也不需向基金公司交纳管理费,只需付出不超过成交金额0.3%的佣金,还不用收取印花税。”此外,由于ETF的每股价格非常接近其基础资产的市场价值,因此在很多专业人士看来,ETF也是投资者分享股市收益的不错选择。

目前,在沪深交易所上市交易的ETF产品不多,他们标的指数不同,因此也各具特色。华安上证180ETF由于都是投资沪市大盘蓝筹股,因此其走势与大盘走势更为接近,比较容易帮助投资者把握大局。而易方达深证100ETF投资于深圳A股的核心资产,盈利能力比较出色,故而绩效也最好;友邦华泰红利ETF则具备较好的市场弹性,尤其是在市场上涨的时候,更有“赚钱”能力;华夏中小板ETF由于投资标的为中小盘股,因此在市场热点集中在中小盘股票时,机会更多。

具体在ETF的投资方式上,一般分为两种:一种是做中长期投资的定投——投资者只要坚持每月固定买入一定数量的ETF,“只要跟对经济周期,就可以跟随市场的上涨分享股市收益”。另外一种方式,也是最被推荐的,就是波段性操作。“每年市场中肯定会有那么一波中期波段行情,只要对市场的阶段性走势有较好把握的投资者,就可以用ETF赚取波段收益。如果是对上海的股市大局比较有把握的投资者,就可以购入华安180ETF,进行中期的波段操作,会比费心费力的选择个股组合更加有把握。

不过对于大部分的投资者来说,在投资ETF中,由于最为看重趋势,因此投资者必须对宏观经济有比较好的研究,如此才能更好的把握大势。此外,投资过程中,一旦遭遇下跌通道,则必须坚定地离场。“因为ETF产品都是95%以上的高仓位投资,股市下跌过程中,就会导致ETF跌得最凶。”

Carnegie Mellon University

June 16th, 2009

Carnegie Mellon University (also known as CMU or simply Carnegie Mellon) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Since its inception, Carnegie Mellon has grown into a world-renowned institution, with numerous programs that are frequently ranked among the best in the world. In the most recent release of the Top 200 World Universities by Times Higher Education, Carnegie Mellon was ranked 21st overall and 6th in technology. In the 2009 edition, U.S. News & World Report ranked Carnegie Mellon’s undergraduate program 22nd in the nation amongst national research universities, and in the 2010 edition its graduate programs in Computer Science 4th, Engineering 6th, Business 15th, Public Affairs 10th, Fine Arts 7th, and Psychology 17th.

The university attracts students from all 50 U.S. states and 93 countries and was named one of the “New Ivies” by Newsweek in 2006. Peer institutions of Carnegie Mellon include Caltech, Cornell, Duke, Emory, Georgia Tech, MIT, Northwestern, Princeton, Rice, RPI, Stanford, Penn and Washington University. Carnegie Mellon is affiliated with at least 15 Nobel laureates.

The university began as the Carnegie Technical Schools, founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1900. In 1912, the school became Carnegie Institute of Technology and began granting four-year degrees. In 1967, the Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to form Carnegie Mellon University. The University’s 140-acre (0.57 km2) main campus is 3 miles (4.8 km) from Downtown Pittsburgh and abuts the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in the city’s Oakland neighborhood.

Carnegie Mellon has seven colleges and schools: the Carnegie Institute of Technology (engineering), the College of Fine Arts, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Mellon College of Science, the Tepper School of Business, the School of Computer Science, and the H. John Heinz III College. Read the rest of this entry »

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

June 16th, 2009

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research. MIT is one of two private land-grant universities and is also a sea-grant and space-grant university.

Founded by William Barton Rogers in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, the university adopted the German university model and emphasized laboratory instruction from an early date. Its current 168-acre (68.0 ha) campus opened in 1916 and extends over 1 mile (1.6 km) along the northern bank of the Charles River basin. MIT researchers were involved in efforts to develop computers, radar, and inertial guidance in connection with defense research during World War II and the Cold War. In the past 60 years, MIT’s educational programs have expanded beyond the physical sciences and engineering into social sciences like economics, philosophy, linguistics, political science, and management.

MIT enrolled 4,172 undergraduates, 6,048 postgraduate students, and employed 1,008 faculty members in the 2007/08 school year. Its endowment and annual research expenditures are among the largest of any American university. 73 Nobel Laureates, 47 National Medal of Science recipients, and 31 MacArthur Fellows are currently or have previously been affiliated with the university.

The Engineers sponsor 33 sports, most of which compete in the NCAA Division III’s New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference; the Division I rowing programs compete as part of the EARC and EAWRC. While students’ irreverence is widely acknowledged due to the traditions of constructing elaborate pranks and engaging in esoteric activities, the aggregated revenues of companies founded by MIT affiliates would make it the seventeenth largest economy in the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Peking University

June 12th, 2009

Peking University (traditional Chinese: 北京大學; simplified Chinese: 北京大学; pinyin: Běijīng Dàxué), colloquially known in Chinese as Beida (北大, Běidà), is a major research university located in Beijing, China. It is the first formally established modern research university, and the first national university of China. It was founded as Imperial Capital University in 1898 as a replacement of the ancient Guozijian (國子監-国子监 guózǐjiàn). By 1920 it had become a center for progressive thought. Today, most national and international rankings frequently place Peking University as one of the best universities in China.In addition to its academics, Peking University is especially renowned for the beauty of its traditional Chinese architecture at its campus grounds.

Throughout its history, the university has distinguished itself from its peers in terms of intellectual freedom and has produced and hosted many of modern China’s top thinkers, including Lu Xun, Mao Zedong, Hu Shih, Li Dazhao, Gu Hongming, and Chen Duxiu. The Peking University was among the birth places for China’s New Culture Movement, May Fourth Movement and many other significant events.

Peking University
北京大学
Established: 1898
Type: National
President: Zhou Qifeng (周其凤)
Faculty: 4,206
Undergraduates: 15,128
Postgraduates: 15,039
Location: Beijing, People’s Republic of China
Campus: Urban, 273 ha
Former names: Imperial Capital University
Nickname: 北大, Běidà
Affiliations: IARU, AEARU, APRU, BESETOHA
Website: www.pku.edu.cn

Stanford University

June 8th, 2009

Stanford University
Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university located in Stanford, California, United States.

Stanford was founded in 1885 by former California governor and senator Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, as a memorial to their son Leland Stanford Jr., who died of typhoid in Europe a few weeks before his 16th birthday. The Stanfords used their farm lands to establish the university hoping to create a large institution in California.

Stanford enrolls about 6,700 undergraduate and about 8,000 graduate students from the United States and around the world every year. The university is divided into a number of schools such as the Stanford Business School, Stanford Law School, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford School of Engineering, etc.

The university is in Silicon Valley, and its alumni have founded companies like Nike, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Nvidia, Yahoo!, Cisco Systems, Silicon Graphics and Google.

Stanford University
Motto: Die Luft der Freiheit weht
(German)
Motto in English: The wind of freedom blows
Established: 1885
Type: Private
Endowment: $17.2 billion
President: John L. Hennessy
Provost: John Etchemendy
Faculty: 1,807
Students: 14,945
Undergraduates: 6,759
Postgraduates: 8,186
Location: Stanford, CA, U.S.
Campus: Suburban, 8,180 acres (33.1 km2)[6]
Athletic nickname: Stanford Cardinal
Colors: Cardinal red and white
Mascot: The color Cardinal red (official), Stanford Tree (unofficial)
Athletics: NCAA Division I (FBS) Pac-10
Website: www.stanford.edu

Mercedes-Benz

June 8th, 2009

Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz is a German manufacturer of automobiles, buses, coaches, and trucks. It is currently a division of the parent company, Daimler AG (formerly DaimlerChrysler AG), after previously being owned by Daimler-Benz. Mercedes-Benz has its origins in Karl Benz’s creation of the first automobile in January 1886, and by Gottlieb Daimler and engineer Wilhelm Maybach’s conversion of a carriage by the addition of a petrol engine the same year. The Mercedes automobile was first marketed in 1901 by Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft. The first Mercedes-Benz brand name vehicles were produced in 1926, following the merger of Karl Benz’s and Gottlieb Daimler’s companies into the Daimler-Benz company. Mercedes-Benz has introduced many technological and safety innovations that have become common in other vehicles several years later. Read the rest of this entry »

Confidence, Fascination and Responsibility

June 8th, 2009

Shanghai, April 20, 2009 – Mercedes-Benz is set to fascinate Chinese audiences with a double breakthrough – a record-high of new model premieres along with an impressive lineup of 35 models – at the 13th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition (Auto Shanghai 2009). The Shanghai Auto Show has become the largest auto show for Mercedes-Benz globally, and only comparable to Frankfurt Motor Show. Mercedes-Benz’s presentation comprises four world premieres, five Asia premieres and four first time debuts for China, along with a fleet of fascinating cars well presenting all brands from Mercedes family, namely Mercedes-Benz, Maybach, smart and Mercedes-AMG. Read the rest of this entry »

University of Oxford

June 7th, 2009

The University of Oxford (informally Oxford University, or simply Oxford), located in the City of Oxford, Oxfordshire, Great Britain, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world.It is also regarded as one of the world’s leading academic institutions. The name is sometimes abbreviated as Oxon. in post-nominals (from the Latin Oxoniensis), although Oxf is sometimes used in official publications. The University has 38 independent colleges, and 6 permanent private halls.

The university traces its roots back to at least 1167, although the exact date of foundation remains unclear, and there is evidence of teaching there as far back as the 10th century. After a dispute between students and townsfolk broke out in 1209, some of the academics at Oxford fled north-east to the town of Cambridge, where the University of Cambridge was founded. The two universities (collectively known as ‘Oxbridge’) have since had a long history of competition with each other. Read the rest of this entry »