endowment fund

基本解釋

For years, Yale University’s endowment fund posted double-digit returns.
耶魯大學的捐款基金在過去多年都能獲得兩位數(shù)以上的回報。
She donated a large sum to the college endowment fund.
她捐贈一大筆款項作為這學院的基金。

As well as setting up a new investment office to oversee the management of its endowment fund, she shifted the asset mix from traditional to one modeled on an increasingly sophisticated and actively managed portfolio, similar to that employed by Harvard.
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But it certainly does make alumni fundraising difficult, as the scholarship looks to create an endowment to fund its continued expansion.
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This reduction comes as large institutions such as pension and endowment funds pressure fund managers to lower fees in response to lower fund returns in recent years.
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