Sentences with phrase «most college endowments»

Most college endowments that have not gone overboard on illiquid investments and don't have a boatload of debt probably don't have to worry here.

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It's a practice that's more common than you might think, and Buffett counts pension funds, college endowments, and savings - minded individuals among the parties most likely to make such a mistake.

By his way of thinking, the most pressing problems include a dramatic drop in college and university endowments, an ever increasing number of graduate students and recent PhDs who will likely never secure full - time academic jobs, and a graying, backward - looking professoriate that refuses to get out of the way.

Most of them» Columbia College is a notable exception» are small and without large endowments.

But they receive comparatively little attention relative to public colleges and the for - profit sector, perhaps because the conventional wisdom casts private colleges based on the profile of the most elite institutions in the sector, which have large endowments and charge high tuition to mostly wealthy students.

I suspect that is a losing battle most of the time, because budgets are fixed in the short - run, and many clients have long term goals that they are trying to achieve — actuarial funding targets, mortgage payments, college tuition, cost of living in retirement, endowment spending rule goals, implied cost of funds, etc..