endowment
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The gain reported by Harvard’s endowment for the fiscal year ended June 30, swelling its coffers to almost $68 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
SpaceX was among the most widely held investments across schools, according to endowment executives, making its record-breaking IPO one of the great windfalls for American endowments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
The endowment had at least a midteens percentage of its portfolio in Elon Musk’s rocket-and-satellite company earlier this year, an unusually large bet for an endowment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Overseeing an endowment of about $150.3 million, Ryan is prioritizing annual support for free admission and programming while raising endowment funds for staff positions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
According to the linguistic school currently on top, human beings are all born with a genetic endowment for recognizing and formulating language.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
University endowments are notching their strongest returns in five years thanks in part to gains from SpaceX and other AI bets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Wilson cautioned against focusing on a single year’s result, saying endowments are long-term investors that prove themselves over 10-year periods or longer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
The managers of funds offering private equity, private credit, nontraded real estate and other alternative assets say it isn’t fair that pension funds and university endowments have access to such funds while small investors don’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Giant investors like pensions and endowments have stuffed themselves so full of private equity, venture capital and other nontraded “alternative” funds that many are suffering indigestion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
His endowments were of a purely physical order—a 4.4 speed in the forty, a skillful ability to play both defensive back and running back, a reputation for hard, tireless work on the held.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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