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I worried about so many things during my life, but the really tough hits I never saw coming. — Anonymous Our 2023 endowment performance report features ten-year investment returns for one hundr...

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Endowment Performance 2023: League Tables —————————————- OCIO Update, Summer 2023: Holding On OCIO Guide 2022: Jon Hirtle, Last Man Standing OCIOs: Your New Best Friends...

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The cautious seldom err or write great poetry. – Howard Marks’ favorite fortune cookie, Dare to Be Great II J.P. Morgan Chase is king of the realm these days, but during my time at Chemical B...

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Aoifinn Devitt, new CIO at London LGPS CIV Ltd. Founder Clontarf Capital, x Cambridge Associates, Moneta Group, Chicago Police & Fire Pension, LLB Trinity College Dublin, MBA INSEAD The post Ao...

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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. – Mark Twain? My grandmother, born in 1896, used to describe recessions as panics – economic brushfires stoked by a bank collapse or two ...

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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. – J. Robert Oppenheimer In the late 80’s Don Valentine, founder of Sequoia Capital, asked me to s...

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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. — Warren Buffett What do chief investment officers earn at nonprofit institutions? We recruit these executives for a living, so we avidly track t...

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A lot of other people are trying to be brilliant. We’re just trying to stay rational. – Charlie Munger At a BlackRock investor conference a few weeks ago, President Rob Kapito mentioned that ...

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it. – Henry Ford, SF Chronicle 1928 What do chief investment officers actually do for a living?  Most b...

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We’re gathering comments and ideas from readers for a conference in NYC and we would love to hear from you. Observations, news, hiring? We’re all ears. See our email at the bottom of this new...

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