Since January 2025, Washington has announced $27.7 billion in equity-linked investments across 39 deals, per the Council on Foreign Relations. The Department of Commerce alone accounts for 24 of them — including a 10% stake in Intel now worth roughly $45 billion, up from $9 billion at purchase. For institutions with passive equity exposure, this isn't abstract: Intel sits in every S&P 500 fund. Understanding where government capital concentrates is now part of underwriting portfolio risk. Read our latest Chart of the Month: https://hubs.ly/Q04x_kSr0
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Dedicated to enhancing the financial resources of our clients by delivering exceptional performance, service and insight
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Commonfund is a leading asset management firm that empowers educational institutions, foundations, pension funds, family offices, RIAs, and other sophisticated investors to achieve their most important goals. Through our Outsourced CIO business, we provide nonprofits access to world-class investment management solutions. Our CF Private Equity business provides access to private equity investments for both nonprofit and for-profit organizations seeking to diversify their portfolios with private investments. Our Commonfund Institute is among the nation’s most trusted sources for relevant, useful, and proprietary data, analytics, and best practices in financial management. All our businesses are united by a relentless commitment to investment performance matched by an equally relentless commitment to the values of trust, transparency, and ethical behavior that have inspired us since our founding more than fifty years ago. www.commonfund.org
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- Investment Management
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- 51-200 employees
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- Norwalk, Connecticut
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- 1971
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- Outsourced Solutions and Private Capital Solutions
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🔐 AI is evolving faster than the guardrails around it — and both defenders and attackers know it. In this #CommonfundForum2026 Spotlight, our CTO David Young sits down with Jen Easterly — former Director of CISA, now CEO of the RSAC Conference — on the cyber threat landscape: building security in by design rather than bolting it on, and preparing for what comes next. A candid look at defending the digital frontier. Watch the Q&A: https://hubs.ly/Q04xdQVk0 #FlashbackFriday #Cybersecurity #AI
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The ten largest S&P 500 companies now account for roughly 40% of the index's market cap. On the latest Espresso Chats, Julia Mord, CIO of Commonfund OCIO, walks through what that concentration means for institutional portfolios — and where AI exposure is building quietly across venture, private equity, real assets and public equities. A grounded look at a theme that's easy to overstate. Listen: https://hubs.ly/Q04xPT-J0
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Check out what Mark Anson had to say from the sidelines of #ALTSSF. Thank you Courtney McQuade for the video. ALTS
It's great to post high IRRs. It's better to see the money come back. Mark Anson, Chief Executive Officer of Commonfund, joined Courtney McQuade from the Sidelines of ALTSSF. Distributions have slowed across private equity. Anson says that always reverses, but in the meantime the yield sits somewhere else: private credit, and not just direct lending. Litigation finance. Aircraft leasing. Asset-based. Shadow banking, as he puts it, is "long since now out of the shadows." He's interviewing Jack Neumark of Fortress Investment Group on stage shortly, and what he wants to know is what asset-based lending actually means. Everyone uses it. Nobody defines it. 🎤 More insights coming straight from the Sidelines of ALTSSF today. #ALTSSF CFA Society San Francisco CalALTs (The California Alternative Investments Association) CAIA Association CAIA AMRS Regional Focus Page Markets Group Paul Hamann Debra Haym Katie Merch-Chammon Hema Ezhil, MBA Grace Fox Zung Tranova Serena Wright Will Hamilton-Hill Stevie Jacobson Gabriela McNicholl Yesenia Valle Amanda Jiang Sara Mueller Danna Christel C. Annabel Sweeney Sean Pellegrin Elizabeth Samolsky Courtney McQuade
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Learning how peer institutions operate improves decision-making — and strengthens the higher education investment community as a whole. That is the premise the NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments has run on for decades. It isn’t an index. It is built entirely from what participating institutions choose to report for the fiscal year ended June 30. Every institution that joins sharpens the comparison for everyone else — most of all in the size and institution-type cohorts where the sample is thinnest. Participation for fiscal 2026 is open now. #CommonfundInstitute #NCSE #Endowment #HigherEd #Benchmarking https://hubs.ly/Q04wkrY10
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🎉 Today marks the start of Hispanic Heritage Month! From September 15 to October 15, we celebrate the histories, cultures, and contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans who have shaped our communities, industries, and country. This month is a reminder that innovation, resilience, and excellence come in every language and from every background. To our Hispanic and Latino colleagues, partners, and friends — thank you for the perspectives, traditions, and talent you bring every day. https://hubs.ly/Q04xvb2Z0 #HispanicHeritageMonth
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Every year, the questions facing institutional investors shift — but the value of working through them together doesn't. That's what Commonfund Forum is built for. Each finance leaders from pensions, endowments, foundations, healthcare systems, and RIAs come together to explore the trends and opportunities shaping their portfolios — and the missions behind them. It's grown into one of the must-attend gatherings for qualified institutional investors. Curious what Commonfund Forum is all about and how your institution can take part? Learn more about our annual program below. https://hubs.ly/Q04xngjk0 #CommonfundForum #InstitutionalInvesting #Endowments #Foundations #Stewardship
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Six Ps. One question that keeps coming back to nonprofit boards: how do we align the portfolio with what our institution stands for? Commonfund Institute's new paper applies the Six Ps governance framework — Purpose, Policy, Process, Portfolio, People and Performance — to mission-aligned investing. The same governance discipline fiduciaries bring to every other part of endowment stewardship, applied to values alignment. It's built as a living reference: something boards, investment committees and senior staff return to as their practice matures. Get the paper: https://hubs.ly/Q04xmGm40 #MissionAlignedInvesting #NonprofitGovernance #Endowments #InvestmentStewardship
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⏮️ How should you size private equity commitments when distributions are muted and returns have run below average? In this #CommonfundForum2026 Spotlight, Felipe Arguello and Rachel Stavola Clivaz of Commonfund OCIO share research on why a disciplined plan — built and maintained across vintage years — matters, and how sizing, timing, and manager selection shape long-term results. The case for not skipping a vintage. Watch the session: https://hubs.ly/Q04mGVDs0 #FlashbackFriday #PrivateEquity #VintageYear
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Today marks 25 years since September 11, 2001. We pause to remember the lives lost, honor the first responders who ran toward danger, and hold in our hearts the families and communities forever changed. Twenty-five years later, their courage and the resilience of our nation continues to inspire us. We will never forget.
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