Endowments Earn Big Returns, But Not Equally

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Elite Universities Boast Double-Digit Returns, But the Gains Aren’t Spread Equally While schools like Stanford deliver 31.7 percent for FY26, MIT saw its endowment post 10.3 percent.

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It May Be Time for Corporate Pensions to Add (Some) Growth Assets “Given plans have already de-risked from where they were 25 years ago, you can add more equity in a measured way,” says NISA’s Rick Ratkowski. View Now

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