The school announced their endowment figures a couple of weeks ago. Cornell University’s endowment earned a 5.3% return for the fiscal year ending June 30. The investments reached $7.3 billion, a new record. The endowment’s gains in real estate...
Read moreTexas Endowment Performance 2019
The school system from the Lone State announced their endowment figures last month. The $22.6 billion Permanent University Fund returned an annualized 9.8%, 6.2% and 9% for the three, five and 10 years, respectively, ended June 30, while the...
Read moreHigh Performance at Australia’s Future Fund
Australia’s Future Fund continues to show very high performance. AUM is now $160B oz. Australia’s Future Fund reports strongest fiscal year return in 4 years, Pensions&Investments Ashby Monk (@sovereignfund)
Read moreJay Girotto – Farmland Opportunity (First Meeting, EP.10)
Jay Girotto is the President of Farmland Opportunity, a $400 million investment manager that provides direct ownership of high quality, consistently productive row crop farmland in the U.S. Like many managers in traditional asset classes...
Read moreBrown Endowment Performance 2019
The school announced their endowment figures last month. [Chief Investment Officer Jane] Dietze noted that the endowment portfolio is not constructed to optimize the investment performance over a single year, but rather that the Brown Investment...
Read moreDartmouth Endowment Performance 2019
The school announced their endowment figures last month. Dartmouth’s endowment generated a return of 7.5% for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, bringing its total value to $5.7 billion. In fiscal year 2019, Dartmouth’s endowment...
Read moreStanford Endowment Performance 2019
Stanford announced their endowment figures last week. For the 12 months ending June 30, 2019, Stanford Management Company generated a 6.5 percent investment return, net of all internal and external costs and fees, but gross of the newly levied...
Read moreESG Popularity Lead by Public Funds
It’s so popular today because ESG responsibility is increasingly moving from tick-box sustainability teams to risk teams that are better integrating the signals into LT decision making. Public funds taking the lead in spectacular boom of...
Read moreJonathan Tepper – Variant Perception of Capitalism (EP.110)
Jonathan Tepper is the founder of Variant Perception, an economic research group that works with institutional managers, hedge funds, and allocators to provide objective and comprehensive data and actionable ideas from leading indicators and...
Read moreNotre Dame CIO Scott Malpass on Endowment Tax
How many can claim to have grown their alma mater’s endowment 30 times over 30 years? [Scott] Malpass is a double Domer, graduating in 1984 and then receiving a master of business administration degree from Notre Dame in 1986. He returned...
Read moreYale Endowment Performance 2019
Yale announced their endowment figures last week. Yale’s endowment earned a 5.7% investment return (net of fees) for the year ending June 30, 2019. The endowment value increased from $29.4 billion on June 30, 2018, to $30.3 billion on June 30...
Read moreHarvard Endowment Performance 2019
Harvard announced their endowment figures last week. HMC [Harvard Management Company], which invests the University’s endowment and other financial assets, announced today that during fiscal 2019, the endowment’s value increased 4.3 percent, to...
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