Blog Posts

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 13, 2021 - The pandemic has strained the budgets of colleges and universities across the country. While cutting costs may be necessary for an institution to keep its doors open, a single-minded focus on financial health comes with its own set of risks.

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.

Many of us associate the month of May with commencement—a time when families, friends, colleagues, and mentors celebrate graduates’ hard work and personal growth.

May 03, 2021 - Institutions are examining ways to increase ROI from academic spend through a data-driven assessment of academic programs, faculty, and student involvement.

April 29, 2021 - While the forced march to remote learning will soon end, institutions understand the need to continue to expand and improve their online offerings. Public-private partnerships coupled with other forms of collaborations can provide access to private capital to support …

April 28, 2021 - Colleges and universities are facing increasing demands to develop measurable goals and benchmarks for institutional progress and assessment.

April 27, 2021 - Instead of recycling tactics used on campus, the Online Learning Advising Model is custom-made for the online learning experience. That includes accounting for how students think and feel about online coursework, helping them cross the finish line to graduation.

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 …