Authored by: Tracy Abedon Filosa

The Missing Metric for Endowment Growth: Net Flow Rate

By comparing the net flow rate with the real investment return, an institution can determine whether its LTIP is successfully sustaining its role in the institution’s business model The net flow rate is the regular LTIP payout rate plus reinvested operating surpluses, capital additions, and capital withdrawals. Over the long term, the real investment return…

Investing Across the Institution – Managing Financial Resources Through an Internal Bank

By centralizing capital funding and operating assets in an internal bank, institutions can decrease required cash balances, increase expected investment returns, better manage debt capacity, and direct funds to institutional priorities. This report reviews in detail the operating and capital functions of an internal bank, the rationale for setting up each type of bank, and…