endowment
Example Sentences
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Deep-pocketed pensions and endowments are scrutinizing their private debt holdings, too, worried in part about the funds’ exposure to software companies that could be hurt by the artificial-intelligence boom.
Native Forward used the new gift to set up a $40 million endowment.
Runaway gains by tech firms in the early days of the internet helped draw pensions, endowments and other deep-pocketed investors to private markets.
He raced over to greet years-ago colleagues in restaurants and forged close relationships with executives at university endowments.
Religious endowments known as bonyads control billions of dollars in assets that bankroll social services for the poor, salaries for clergy and industrial manufacturing.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.