Asset Allocation
MIT Announces Endowment Performance, Returns 8.9% in Fiscal 2024
Assets managed by MITIMCo rose to $24.6 billion.
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Newsmakers
Quant Trailblazer Jim Simons Dies at 86
His success came from pioneering efforts in applying algorithms to hedge fund trading, a popular investment for allocators.
Regulation
Proposed Massachusetts Endowment Tax to Hit Harvard, MIT, 11 Other Schools
The 2.5% excise tax would target private institutions in the state with endowments of at least $1 billion.
Asset Allocation
MIT Endowment Return Dips 2.9% in Fiscal 2023
Although the endowment posted negative returns for a second year in a row, the funded status of its defined benefit pension plan improved.
Asset Allocation
Amnesty International Scolds University Endowments for Human Rights Indifference
The report gives failing grades to several major university investment offices due to a lack of ‘human rights due diligence.’
Asset Allocation
MIT, Bowdoin Endowments Lose 5.3%, 7.1% in Fiscal 2022
‘Challenging economic conditions’ reduce MIT’s endowment by nearly $3 billion.
Asset Allocation
MIT Investment Arm Reflects on Allocation Strategy
Fifteen years on, MITIMCo’s unique investment model highlights changes underway in endowment investing.
Brown Leads Ivies for Third Year in a Row, as Columbia, Harvard Lag Behind
Endowment investment returns range from 32.3% to 51.5% for the fiscal year ending June 30.
Asset Allocation
MIT, Brown Endowments Report Over 50% Returns for 2021
MIT’s portfolio grew to $27.4 billion, while Brown’s rose to $6.9 billion.
The Hodgepodge of ESG Investment Standards Sparks Controversy
MIT study underscores the confusion of ratings, then DOL cites that in proposing curbing sustainability factors in retirement portfolios.
Research
Brainiacs Adapt Human Skull Analysis to Predict Recessions
MIT and State Street researchers’ new index forecasts over 70% chance of recession in six months.
Regulation
MIT Endowment Returns 8.8% in 2019, Grows to $17.4 Billion
University addresses Epstein protests, launches internal review of donor relationships.
