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But enough about real-world experi-
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manager ofa'500,000 stock portfolio.
Who knows where you'll get your next
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pick up the phone, call your broker and
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Make the wrong moves and risk noth-
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No Common
Cents
In the days of dwindling funding for higher
education,this one really hurts.
Unauthonrized investment trading since 1992
has cost an unknown number of colleges and uni-
versities at least $138 million. As if school admin-
istrators needed another excusetojack up your
tuition and fees.
The investments were part of the Connecticut-
based Common Fund, a $20 billion pool of invest-
ments from 1,400 schools nationwide. First Capi-
tal Strategists Inc., one of many investment firms
working for the Common Fund, is the group
responsible for the loss.
The lost money was actually investment earn-
ings, not student dollars. But the losses are
expected to have a trickle-down effect.
The use of investment earnings varies at each
school. Some reinvest them; others factor them
into their annual budgets.
The Pennsylvania-based First Capital will not
say how many schools were affected by the loss,
but it seems that many of the 1,400 schools may
feel the pinch. Penn State U. officials say the
school lost at least $736,000 in the transactions.
The U. of Michigan's losses amounted to at least
$1.5 million.
"It looks like the university will have to absorb
the loss," says Randy Harris, associate vice presi-
dent of finance at Michigan.
First Capital officials say Kent Ahrens, a senior
trader with the firm, admitted he lost a "relatively
small" amount of money - less than $100,000 -
in an initial investment. But rather than reporting
the loss, as is customary, Ahrens tried to trade his
way out of the red and lost even more money.
First Capital has suspended Ahrens. According
to First Capital officials, "He clearly understood
that his actions were in contravention not only of
the Common Fund's investment guidelines but
also First Capital's policies and procedures."
The Common Fund, a nonprofit organization,
has experienced some fallout from Ahrens' actions.
The U. of Minnesota, which lost no money, pulled
its investments in July from the Common Fund and
from First Capital. Six other schools, including
Denison U. in Ohio, have since followed suit.
The Common Fund officials are doing every-
thing they can to recover the losses, says Michi-
gan's Harris. "But we're still going to seea big
reduction in our year's earnings."
Travis Spencer, Eastern Illinois U.
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