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Academia’s Wealth Stratification Drives the Decline in Reporting Endowments

It is startling that participation in the NACUBO survey has steadily declined since FY 2017. Why is the number of participants decreasing every year? Why is the decrease closely correlated with endowment size? What does that correlation reveal about wealth stratification in higher education?

06.14.23
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Even as Harvard endowment shrank last year, its managers got big paydays

Deferred compensation swelled the payouts to Harvard’s top endowment managers in 2021, despite market conditions that would later lead to losses

05.12.23
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Should UBC endowment lands join Vancouver or become a new municipality?

A provincial study suggests the B.C. government wants out of responsibility for the University of B.C. Endowment Lands, possibly opening the door for the community to join the City of Vancouver or become a new municipality.

05.05.23
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UP CLOSE | The Investments Office’s diversity “smoke screen”

How Yale and its peer institutions keep their assets under primarily white management

04.04.23
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White House to Call for New Midsize Bank Rules After SVB, Signature Failures

The White House is planning as soon as this week to recommend tougher rules for midsize banks, according to people familiar with the matter, after the collapse of two lenders earlier this month sent tremors through the banking system.

03.29.23
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Where is the Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education Engagement with Investment Management Firms?

The question of how equitable the engagement of higher education institutions with private equity firms and other investment management groups is a difficult one to answer. The reason for this is that there is an incredible lack of transparency in identifying what money managers many higher education institutions are using to steward their endowments.

02.06.23
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University of Iowa sued by its corporate partner in billion-dollar utility deal

Just three years into a 50-year, billion-dollar partnership with a utility company, the University of Iowa is being sued over an alleged failure to abide by the terms of the deal.

01.30.23
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Boston College Has A Responsibility To Make Its Investment Portfolio More Transparent

Boston College’s profile of its $3.7 billion endowment is short, vague, and far from informative. The University has a moral responsibility to change this.

01.30.23
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Blackstone's $4 Billion California Deal Riles University Unions

Unions representing 110,000 University of California workers demanded that the system divest holdings from Blackstone Inc., including a recent $4 billion investment with its massive real estate trust.

01.17.23
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Blackstone Trust Becomes A Test Of The Retail Investing Trend

A turbulent market has highlighted just how difficult it is to provide retail investors access to illiquid investments like real estate and other private assets.

01.05.23