“It was an extraordinary year for the endowment, which will benefit the Yale community now and for generations to come,” said Yale CIO Matt Mendelsohn.

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A 33.6 percent return on endowment investments, as expense controls and donor support buoy the budget in an unprecedented year

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The record funding pace continues into the third quarter of 2021 with $160 billion invested globally, matching the huge funding increase in the second quarter and up 78 percent year over year.

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We study long-run shareholder outcomes for over 64,000 global common stocks during the January 1990 to December 2020 period. We document that the majority, 55.

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Download the CB Insights State Of Venture Q3'21 report to read about the huge quarter for global & US funding, exits, valuations, and more.

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The shifting sands of tech IPOs If the IPO process is like a debutante ball, the top investment banks are akin to a finishing school. They help gussy up companies, teach them proper manners like how to do GAAP accounting, and bring them around to call on prospective investors and eventually debut to society. This … Continue reading Narrative Distillation →

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According to Knuffman, the UNC System office wants the All-Funds to ensure that “scarce budget dollars” are allocated in a transparent and efficient way. He highlighted that a major goal in implementing the All-Funds plan was to strengthen the fiduciary responsibility of the Board of Trustees.

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Series A funding round sizes have grown significantly in recent years, with average Series A funding tripling over the decade. So who are the investors still funding Series A?

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Some schools, including Washington University in St. Louis and Duke University, gained more than 50%.

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Technology-fueled growth across all sectors is poised to accelerate.

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Get insights on macro topics such as manager dispersion, while also diving into real estate, private credit, private equity and hedge funds and more.

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Venture capital-backed companies account for 41% of total US market capitalization and 62% of US public companies’ R&D spending. Among public companies foun

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As growth investors at Bessemer, we hear the same benchmarking questions over and over from portfolio companies as they mature: What should my gross margin be? How much should I be spending on R&D as a percent of revenue? How does my growth rate compare to peers in the market?

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The supposed “death” of Silicon Valley appears to be greatly exaggerated, writes Alberto Onetti, chairman of Mind the Bridge. But while there will likely be multiple clusters in different places able to get beyond critical mass, there’s no new Silicon Valley in sight.

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Deal value smashes records while investment vehicles hunt for new ways to fire up drab returns

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UVIMCO provides investment management services to the University of Virginia and its related foundations.

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Investing in private equity goes meta | Finance & economics

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The University of California’s Office of the Chief Investment Officer (UC Investments) announced today (August 31) that its assets under management grew to $168 billion as of June 30, 2021, a 29 percent jump over the prior fiscal year and the largest one-year gain in its history. The additional $38 billion in assets over the previous year represents a 77 percent increase since 2014.

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At a time when many investors are content to follow the crowd and buy top techs like Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, Cathie Wood is looking for the next big innovators in buzzy fields like robotics, fintech and space exploration.

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Scott Malpass was the CIO of Notre Dames' endowment for 32 years and has always been a pioneer at the forefront of the endowment investing world - leading Notre Dames's early investments into Sequoia as well as some of the premier fund managers in China decades ago. Scott built the endowment into a powerhouse, scaling it from $400 million to over $12 billion of assets under management across 175 managers. In our conversation, we talk about the qualities he looks for in great investors, how asset classes have evolved over his 30 years of investing, and how Scott recruited top talent to work at Notre Dame’s endowment.

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