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Endowment asset management : investment strategies in Oxford and Cambridge / Shanta Acharya and Elroy Dimson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Acharya, Shanta.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- University of Cambridge--Endowments.
- University of Cambridge.
- University of Oxford--Endowments.
- University of Oxford.
- Institutional investments--England.
- Institutional investments.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- There is a profound linkage between the quality of a university and its financial resources. The universities of Oxford and Cambridge rank among the world's finest educational institutions, and are able to draw on invested assets that are large by any standards. Endowment Asset Management explores how the colleges that comprise these two great universities make their investment decisions.Oxford and Cambridge are collegiate institutions, each consisting of a federal university and over 30 constituent colleges. While the colleges may have ostensibly similar missions, they are governed independen
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-353) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-160731-2
- 9786611160722
- 1-4356-2145-X
- 0-19-152623-1
- 1-281-16072-5
- OCLC:
- 144451210
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