Investment

July 21, 2021 - Fossil fuel divestment is a popular topic across University campuses – often with students and faculty advocating for divestment and University and Affiliated Foundation...

June 22, 2021 - With financial models across the higher education sector under stress, creative approaches to finance business strategy and facilitate revenue growth are needed.

June 17, 2021 - As special purpose acquisition corporations (SPACs) continue to enter the mainstream investment market, we may see their role change and potentially increase among institutional investors. Historically, SPACs were often neglected due to an overwhelming amount of negative feelings towards these …

June 03, 2021 - Most boards understand the crucial role that private capital plays in an institution’s investment portfolio.

May 25, 2021 - While unprecedented in many ways, the market’s behavior during and after the onset of COVID-19 reinforced several lessons for endowments as to how to manage through —and hopefully benefit from— periods of market crisis.

May 17, 2021 - In this blog post, we’ll share best practices to help you integrate ESG risk factors into your investment portfolios. Regardless of the type of provider you’re working with, you as a fiduciary can rely on a variety of methods and …

May 12, 2021 - Endowments face a unique set of challenges; their high return goals reflect a need to grow intergenerational equity while meeting ambitious spending requirements. In the forward-looking market environment, BlackRock considers four principles for endowment investing.

April 22, 2021 - ESG and environmentally sustainable investment are increasingly capturing the attention of the institutional investment community. To assess the state of ESG and sustainable investing and how they are changing, Commonfund Forum 2021 offered a discussion focused on these topics featuring …

April 01, 2021 - This blog explores using a spending immunization strategy to manage its liquidity needs. It also describes how one university leveraged its nimble investment process to pivot during the pandemic. From our partner, SEI

March 23, 2021 - The 2020-2021 academic year presented challenges for  educational institutions, pivoting their initial plans and strategies to support the transition to remote learning and other health and safety measures. In addition to the significant toll taken on human health and well-being, …