endowment
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The statement claimed that taking into account the company’s endowment, an external accounting firm calculated that the opera company had “accumulated a $72 million deficit to the center” between 2011 and 2026.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
In his annual External link state of the university letter in February, Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber noted that the endowment has adjusted its long-term return assumptions from 10.2% three years ago to 8% today.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Princeton University was among the last of the Ivy League schools to divest from publicly traded fossil fuel companies in its endowment.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
SpaceX is among the most widely held investments across colleges and universities, endowment executives say, likely making the rocket company’s coming IPO one of the great windfalls for American endowments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
The foundation had an endowment of roughly $22 billion, which generated about $1.1 billion in annual income to spend on various projects, about half of it to improve global health.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
“What happened during that period was that a consensus emerged,” Eustis said, noting that it was expressed in the form of national endowments, state arts agencies, public policy institutes and corporate philanthropic departments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
In “Notes on the State of Virginia” he acknowledged that in endowments of the heart—he cited integrity, benevolence, gratitude and fidelity—nature “will be found to have done them justice.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Banks are selling programs that systematically execute trades based on preset rules to pension funds, endowments, family offices and others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
Hedge funds and others have long deployed such quant-trading strategies, but now pension funds, endowments, family offices and others are embracing them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 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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