endowment
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Harvard University’s endowment just disclosed a $2.2 billion stake in SpaceX.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
The risk was exacerbated because the school has a relatively small endowment for a university of its size.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
He also introduced him to the chief of Princeton’s endowment, who invested $10 million in Thrive’s first institutional fund.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Institutions with billions in endowment don’t sign baseless settlements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Baker & Inglis, with an impressive physical plant but a small endowment, wasn’t averse to increasing enrollment.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Giant investors like pensions and endowments have stuffed themselves so full of private equity, venture capital and other nontraded “alternative” funds that many are suffering indigestion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Typically, a hedge fund of Situational’s size has an investor base dominated by institutions, from pension plans and university endowments to sovereign-wealth funds and private banks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The percentage of schools drawing down endowments at 15% tripled to 5%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Nearly 200 private colleges borrowed from restricted endowments in 2025, up from 131 in 2021, according to estimates from Perspective Data Science, a higher-education financial consultant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
His endowments were of a purely physical order—a 4.4 speed in the forty, a skillful ability to play both defensive back and running back, a reputation for hard, tireless work on the held.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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The Federalist Papers, No. 10 by James Madison
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