Investment

September 21, 2021 - Trustees are no longer passive participants outside of mainstream decision-making and policy formulation. The bottom line is simple: How well boards function will make a big difference in the fortunes of the organizations they guide. The board’s role is strategic, not …

August 10, 2021 - It’s Summer 2021 and we are heading into a new academic year with many emotions: excitement, trepidation, confidence, hope. I expect the 2021/2022 academic year to bring all these to a heightened level.  As a mother of a graduate student, …

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 …

Though endowments have long been leaders in investment innovation, it has been nearly 25 years since the original endowment model was formulated. Endowments need to keep innovating to remain effective.

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.