Standard Life has reneged on its promise to cover the mortgage shortfalls of 600,000 endowment customers.
And 2010 sees the opening of a 350-bed medical care and research centre with a £4bn endowment.
Mr Müller-Esterl hopes the university will build its puny €125m endowment up to €5 billion-6 billion.But Goethe is not immune to German ailments.
In 2014, the Wellcome Trust's £18bn endowment included over £450m invested in the fossil fuel majors Shell, BP, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton alone.
The University of Cambridge has rejected calls to divest its £5.9bn endowment from fossil fuels, as students, academics and the former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams have called for.
King's College London has endorsed a plan that would sink millions of its £179m endowment into clean energy, and drop investments in the most polluting fossil fuels.
L'Oréal, the international cosmetics firm, recently gave a £1.8m endowment to create the post of professor of marketing at the business school.
The Wellcome Trust, whose £19bn endowment makes it the second biggest health charity in the world, says "climate change is one of the greatest contemporary challenges to global health".
However, while the Getty Trust bids for this painting, Getty's son - the cricket-loving, naturalised Briton John - has established the Getty Fund, a £50m endowment to the National Gallery.
In response to the students' request, the university's Socially Responsible Investment Review Committee last year conducted an inquiry on the divestment of the university's £2bn endowment.
The University of Edinburgh is expected to divest its £292m endowment from coal and tar sands companies following a recommendation from senior management on Tuesday.
