Endowment asset management : investment strategies in Oxford and Cambridge /

This study focuses on how the endowment assets of Oxford and Cambridge colleges are invested. Despite their shared missions, each interprets its investment objective differently, often resulting in remarkably dissimilar strategies. This work provides new insights for all investors with a long-term i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Acharya, Shanta
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Other Authors: Dimson, Elroy, 1947-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of tables
  • Endowment definition
  • The investment committee
  • Investment objective
  • Spending policy
  • Asset allocation
  • Investing in property
  • Issues in portfolio management
  • Portfolio risk
  • Consultant selection and monitoring
  • Manager selection and monitoring
  • Socially responsible investment
  • Performance measurement
  • Endowment management cost
  • Fund-raising: role of gifts
  • Concluding observations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.