Sentences with phrase «college endowments»

My original assumptions about college endowments is that they played it extremely safe and invested mostly in large cap US funds, bonds, and real estate.

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This notion underlies a lot of campaigns, ranging from Ecuador's effort to raise enough money from international contributors to «leave the oil in the soil» under its splendid Yasuní National Park to Bill McKibben's «Do the Math» campaign to rid university and college endowments of fossil fuel investments.

We look forward to continuing to provide our diverse array of investors — ranging from pure return - focused institutions such as insurance companies to impact - seeking college endowments and foundations — with attractive risk - adjusted returns.»

Mr. Bernstein is co-chair of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation endowment's Investment Committee (~ $ 1.8 billion) and sits on the Hamilton College endowment's Investment Committee (~ $ 700 million); he is a trustee of both institutions.

Nathaniel, I'm not so sure about your post on college endowments.

College endowments proved easy pickings for the sixteenth - century Crown and lay «reformers».

SU, in fact, has publicly criticized the Republican tax overhaul because it would end tax deductions for interest paid on student loans, tax tuition benefits received by graduate students and the children of university employees, and impose a 1.4 percent excise tax on investment income from college endowments.

And oh yeah — the federal government decided to tax wealthy 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.

The bill does, however, tax some large private college endowments.

College endowment funds should invest in «renewable energies» instead.

On Monday, Nathaniel wrote about college endowments and proposed legislation.

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.

Pointing to «tens of millions» he and his wife have donated to combat climate change, Druckenmiller says his primary responsibility is to deliver returns for the college endowment and its good works.

Whether the college endowment tax was politically targeted or part of a larger plan to push schools to lower the barrier to entry, it doesn't change the reality that many liberal arts colleges stand to lose significant endowment income.

Think about the college endowments — the top 800 control $ 400 billion in investable assets.

It is a terrible mistake for investors with long - term horizons — among them, pension funds, college endowments and savings - minded individuals — to measure their investment «risk» by their portfolio's ratio of bonds to stocks.

For example, consider the differences in tax treatment and marginal rates of an individual investor with a taxable account, an individual investor with an individual retirement account (IRA) or brokerage option in a 401 (k) retirement plan, a professional manager of a fund of funds, or a college endowment manager.

For that reason, the financial «elites» — wealthy individuals, pension funds, college endowments and the like — have great trouble meekly signing up for a financial product or service that is available as well to people investing only a few thousand dollars.»

You may think that college endowments, with all their access to academic knowledge and brainpower, would outperform portfolios composed of index funds.

Reed College's Board of Trustees recently published its official rejection of Fossil Free Reed's petition to divest the college endowment of fossil fuels (Reed College won't divest fossil fuel holdings, web story, July 17).

After all, is the duty of the manager of those funds in a university or college endowment to find the best possible investment in pure financial terms, or based on both the economic and potentially unrealizable social return on campus?

Institutional investors, such as banks, mutual fund companies, and college endowments, have long known the value of commercial real estate investing.

DRA Advisors is a New York City - based real estate investor for large pension funds and college endowments.