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...significantly improved returns seen this year build upon the successes of last year, which pulled educational endowment returns back into the black after three very difficult years,” said Commonfund Institute Executive Director John S. Griswold in a press release...
Higher education institutions with endowments greater than $1 billion averaged returns of 2.3 percent—more than 10 percent less than Harvard’s—according to preliminary data from the Commonfund Benchmarks Study published in Monday’s Chronicle of Higher Education...
...Despite Cabot’s early successes, The Commonfund had outpaced the Harvard endowment by a full percentage point during Cabot’s time as head...
...fact is that compared with other large endowment funds, The Commonfund has generally done a little better over time,” said then-Commonfund President George F. Keene...
...Griswold says that the Commonfund has seen a drop-off in shareholder responsibility issues in the 1990s, since no single issue dominates anymore, as apartheid did in the 1980s—now concerns are spread more widely over tobacco, alcohol, child and slave labor, and weapons production...