Our annual survey-based report summarizes returns, asset allocation, and other investment-related data for 106 foundations for the calendar year ended December 31, 2022, across six sections: Investment Portfolio Returns, Investment Policy, Portfolio Asset Allocation, Investment Manager Structures, Payout From the Long-Term Investment Portfolio, and Investment Office Staffing and Governance.
Yes, the transition to a low-carbon economy is producing a myriad of productive ways to put capital to work.
Yes. Despite elevated macro uncertainty, it is an opportune time to allocate to private credit.
Private credit strategies such as private direct lending funds and public business development companies have become popular among pension plan sponsors seeking yield enhancement over their public fixed income allocations. Understanding the key characteristics of both will better enable them to choose the best fit for their plan.
Consistently revisiting potential liquidity risk is important work for family investors. To manage liquidity risk, families should employ best practices, monitoring illiquid investments, spending needs, and currency considerations. By doing so, they can guard against unanticipated stressors and remain on track to achieve their investment goals.
By changing the PPA discount rate methodology to the Full Yield Curve approach, ERISA-covered US single-employer pension plans can significantly decrease or eliminate their variable rate premiums, reduce complexity, and simplify the risk management process.
The Foundation Annual Flash Statistics Report provides a first look at the results of our 2022 Foundation Annual Investment Pool Returns survey. Look for our full annual analysis in the upcoming Foundation Annual Investment Pool Returns report.
No. While the exciting developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have been a bright spot for equity markets this year, we do not think value will continue to lag growth. In fact, we expect it will outperform over the next several years.
For families of significant wealth, complexity is a natural byproduct of a well-managed portfolio, but there is such a thing as overcomplexity. This paper discusses a range of best practices to consider if and when a portfolio is encountering sluggishness, inefficiency, or ambiguity.
For investors that typically rely on high-quality government bonds as a counterbalance in equity-heavy portfolios, poor recent performance, higher cash yields, and uncertainty about inflation are difficult hurdles to overcome. However, they are not a reason to underweight government bonds. The outlook for government bonds is more constructive, and we expect them to outperform cash over the next one to three years.