Article: TOP HARVARD MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVES REAP LOWER PAY HARVARD MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVES' PAY FALLS

Harvard University's elite money managers are punishing themselves.

Top executives at the institution's investment arm are taking home lower pay this year, because of leaner returns in their megaportfolio.

In the lucrative investing world, "less" can be relative. The Harvard managers, who run the university's $14 billion endowment, are still among the best paid in the business. Their paychecks declined nowhere near as much as their investment returns, whose leaner shape Harvard has blamed on outside, nonstaff money managers, an inability to place more cash in venture capital funds, and tough benchmarks.

Harvard Management's new top earner, Philip Dubuque, will take home $9.5 million in ...

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