Sentence examples for school endowments from inspiring English sources

And a growing number of women run investment portfolios at college and prep school endowments.

In general, day school endowments are far smaller than those of boarding schools.

School endowments generally pay out about 5percentt of their assets annually, a rule of thumb among charities.

Oppenheimer deceived the fund's investors, which included public pension funds and school endowments, by telling them that outside auditors had vetted the returns.

Indeed, a survey by Commonfund, which manages money for nonprofit institutions, found that university endowments over $1 billion generated an average annual return for the five years that ended June 30 , 2008 of 13.1percentt whereas the returns from private school endowments over $50 million averaged 10.4percentt for the same period.

Pension funds, mutual funds, school endowments -- the value of all of this depends on a mechanism that can lose a trillion dollars in minutes without anyone having a clear idea why.

U.S.C. said $100 million would go to the cinema school endowment and $75 million for new and renovated buildings.

Finally, management drew off $17 million from a joint hospital-medical school endowment, even though footnotes warn that $6.5 million might have to be returned to the medical school if donors object.

Mr. Hubbard, 45, will succeed Meyer Feldberg, who has been dean for 15 years, during which time the schools endowment increased nearly fifteenfold, to about $230 million.

Most schools own equities outside the U.S., so volatility in Europe and China created drag on schools' endowment growth, the survey concluded.

Along with setting policy, raising money and building the school's endowments, Mr. Twerski plans to keep one foot in the classroom, teaching product liability beginning in the spring.