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The CIO said the comments to an audience of financial advisors at a conference held in Miami this week.
After showing consistent returns over the last two decades, private infrastructure funds offer attractive investment opportunities for nonprofits, due to growing demand, diversification of assets and mandated revenue structures of infrastructure projects.
As the upsets, buzzer beaters and Cinderella stories on the hardwood distract the U.S. workforce and captivate the country, Nonprofit News examined how each team stacks up off the court from an endowment perspective.
The pushback on diversity, equity and inclusion by the federal government, which plans to investigate whether DEI initiatives at several large universities and foundations are illegal, alongside several state governments has left some nonprofit institutions questioning their mission.
New research finds fixed-income hedge funds are growing in popularity among global institutions that seek higher yields without liquidity.
Smaller college and university endowments outperformed their larger peers for the second year in a row, according to the National Association of College and University Business Officers’ 51st annual study of endowments.
Institutional investors increasingly sought comfort and partnerships with investment consultants that provide expertise on alternative and private markets asset classes as 2024 came to a close.
Historic market concentration within the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index has led to a resurgence in active domestic large-cap core equity investing among institutional investors.
Under today’s conditions, many nonprofits and allocators are looking at other macro trends — especially the advancement of artificial intelligence technologies and concomitant demand spike for energy and infrastructure — that bode well for their alternatives allocations.
Investors and allocators approached 2024 with an optimistic outlook, anticipating that inflation had peaked and would continue to reverse course, and they were rewarded as the Federal Reserve cut rates and equity and bond returns ended up firmly in the green. The year ahead, however, leaves investors with questions on how to navigate a market where valuations appear full and few assets appear cheap.