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March madness is in full effect as the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament began this week with 68 teams from across the country competing for the national championship with the winners slated to cut down the nets in Houston on April 3. While the upsets, buzzer beaters and Cinderella stories will take place on the hardwood, Nonprofit News examined how each of the teams stack up off the court from an endowment perspective.
Given available yields in short rates and “superior” liquidity in the current high interest rate environment, healthcare systems can benefit from allocating new funds to short-term tiers, according to a recent report.
The National Association of College and University Business Officers has reentered a partnership with Commonfund for help in the development and publication of its annual study of college and university endowments.
Investment consultants and institutional investors continue to monitor the fallout of Silicon Valley Bank’s recent failure and its ongoing effects on the market.
The indirect impact of the Silicon Valley Bank situation on institutional investors will take time to fully assess as Federal Reserve actions to backdrop depositors is digested by the markets.
Institutions are not as pessimistic about future economic performance as they were last year and their sentiments have shifted to cautious optimism, according to a recent survey.
A new survey showed that many nonprofit investors expect to increase their allocations to alternative assets this year for diversification benefits and to increase portfolio performance.
By now, most know that less than 2% of the U.S.-based investment management industry’s $82 trillion in assets is handled by diverse managers. Maybe less know that historically Black college and university endowments make up an even smaller percentage of higher education endowments nationally.
Non-U.S. and global equity saw greater interest than domestic strategies during the fourth quarter, according to FIN Searches hiring data.
Higher education endowments’ average investment return was down sharply in the 2022 fiscal year ending June 30 reflecting a sudden entry into the long-anticipated low-return environment, according to a recent study.
