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A Closer Look at Health Conversion Foundations: 2025 CCSF Results
Commonfund, in partnership with the Council on Foundations, recently released the 2025 Council on Foundations–Commonfund Study of Investment of Endowments for Private and Community Foundations (CCSF,...
Your Crisis Playbook Needs Guardrails, Too
Why your governance needs stress-testing before the market does it for you Learn More
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...
Invested in the Future: The Case for Student-Managed Investment Funds
Real life, real money, real rewards: Student-managed investment funds bring hands-on portfolio management to the college campus.
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...
Small Cap Equity Investing: From Activism to Constructivism
Small‑cap equity investing has long offered fertile ground for investors seeking overlooked opportunities, but the tools used to unlock that value are changing. A Commonfund Forum 2026 topical lunch...
The Trillion Dollar Trend: Mega-IPOs and What They Mean for Capital Markets