Through our long standing engagement with universities, charities, professional associations and many other endowments and charitable entities, we recognise that these organisations differ from other institutional investors in a number of ways, as they have:
In today’s increasingly complex investment environment, an implemented consulting model is often the preferred approach for endowment and foundation investors, as they find it difficult to commit the necessary time and resources to swiftly make and implement investment decisions and often don’t have the size to support an in house investment team.
By enabling Trustees to spend more time focused on high level investment matters like investment objectives and strategic asset allocation while leaving the day to day operational and manager selection decisions to full time professionals an outsourced approach can potentially provide better outcomes.
Through our experience and research, we have witnessed a growing number of not-for-profit investors switching to implemented consulting from traditional consulting or a broker model.
Our suite of specialist advice, support and tailored solutions for endowment and foundation investors includes:
Our bi-annual survey benchmarks key trends specific to endowment and foundation investors such as their investment objectives, spending policy, investment implementation and asset allocation.
Key findings from the survey and our latest thought leadership are also presented at our annual event for not-for-profit investors.
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