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Harvard University's endowment fund, the world's largest university endowment, lost money during the last year, marking a dramatic U-turn from the previous year's double-digit gains. Rattled by ...
The Harvard University endowment, valued at $50.7 billion as of June 30, 2023, [1] is the largest academic endowment in the world. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Its value increased by over 10 billion dollars in fiscal year 2021, ending the year with its largest sum in history. [ 4 ]
The investment yields a return that funds a portion of an institution's operational expenses while the principal exists in perpetuity. U.S. colleges and universities maintain some of the largest endowments in the world and make up the vast majority of higher education institutions with endowments greater than $1 billion.
Harvard University’s endowment ranks second-to-last among Ivy League schools in annualized returns over the last 20 years after soaring success in the 1990s and early 2000s, according to a report.
Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) on Sunday said cutting federal funds for Harvard University and other schools should be an option “on the table” over their handling of campus antisemitism.
[3] [4] In part due to such scrutiny, the pair left Harvard to form their own firm, Adage Capital Management. [2] [3] [4] They took with them an 18-person team and a $1.8 billion day-one investment from Harvard in exchange for an initial agreement (now expired) to pay ten percent of Adage's earnings to the university. [3] [4]
Harvard's endowment fund, the world's largest university endowment, grew to $53.2 billion in fiscal 2024 amid strong investment returns even though endowment gifts shrank by a third as donors ...
Engraving of Harvard College by Paul Revere, 1767. Harvard University's endowment was valued at $53.2 billion as of 2021. [1]A financial endowment is a legal structure for managing, and in many cases indefinitely perpetuating, a pool of financial, real estate, or other investments for a specific purpose according to the will of its founders and donors. [2]