While U.S. healthcare systems continue to look to increase their allocations to alternative investments, they are also reporting an increased interest in cash and fixed-income, a new study finds.
The foundation approved a new investment policy statement and revised its target asset allocation, including maiden short-duration fixed-income and cash targets last week.
2023 was supposed to be a down year for foundations and endowments with a potentially recessionary environment, however, equity and bond returns came out in the green, thanks in part to strong fourth quarters, leaving investors and allocators with a more optimistic outlook for their portfolios entering 2024.
The institution approved venture capital commitments to a firm that marks a new relationship and terminated a hedge fund manager for liquidity purposes and being overweight its targets to the strategies.
The university has issued an RFP seeking firms to invest its cash reserves in low-risk liquid investment instruments after conducting a similar search in 2016.
The firms plan to form a joint venture combining their cash equities and equity research businesses to provide investment insights into the American, European and Asia Pacific equity markets as well as liquidity access and leading global trading technology.