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Vendor Risk: Lessons from the Anthropic Mythos Breach
On the morning Anthropic launched Mythos, one of the most advanced artifical intelligent (AI) coding models released to date, reporting suggests a private Discord group was already inside. They...
Higher Education Price Index Forecast May 2026
According to Commonfund Institute's latest update, HEPI forecasts a 3.6 percent inflation rate for U.S. colleges and universities in fiscal year 2026. The latest forecast, based on data through May... Learn More
The PE Secondary Market: What Investors Need to Know
At a recent Commonfund Forum session, Ethan Levine, Head of Secondaries at CF Private Equity, sat down with David Markson, Senior Managing Director at Evercore's Private Capital Advisory Group, and...
Where's the Alpha When Everything Looks Stretched?
Commonfund Forum 2026, held in Hollywood, FL and themed "Navigate Now," brought together leading investment managers and institutional allocators to tackle the most pressing challenges facing...
A Closer Look at Independent Schools with Smaller Endowments
Commonfund, in partnership with NBOA, recently released the 2025 Commonfund Study of Independent Schools (CSIS, or, the “Study”). The Study examines investment performance, governance and management...
Understanding the Evolution of the Natural Resources Opportunity Set
If you believed the headlines from 2015 through 2020, you might have concluded that oil and gas investing was finished — a relic being steadily dismantled by the twin forces of ESG pressure and the...
Mind the Gap: Understanding the Strategic Risk of Skipping a Vintage in Private Equity
In this Commonfund Forum Spotlight session, Felipe Arguello, Managing Director, and Rachel Stavola Clivaz, Director, from Commonfund OCIO will share their recent research findings showing the...
Charitable Giving in a Changing Policy Landscape
Join hosts George Suttles, Executive Director, and Amanda Novello, Sr. Policy and Research Analyst, in this episode of "Espresso Chats," a series by the Commonfund Institute serving up strong, short...
Inflation Strategies for Independent School Endowments
Inflation impacts independent schools in a variety of ways: it puts additional pressure on endowments and operating budgets, makes it more difficult to meet inflation-adjusted target returns, and...
A New Code for AI | Key Takeaways
The story of AI being told in corporate boardrooms is not the same story being told in communities. Dhar argues that the scale of investment flowing into AI must be matched by an equal commitment to...
Defending the Digital Frontier | Q&A
Geopolitical tensions are rising, AI is evolving faster than our guardrails, and cyber threats have never been more sophisticated. The threat landscape has never been more complex — and the stakes...
Community Colleges: Analyzing Endowment Performance and Trends
Earlier this year, Commonfund, in partnership with the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), released the 2025 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments (NCSE). The...
The Trillion Dollar Trend: Mega-IPOs and What They Mean for Capital Markets