Endowment Asset Management, 9780199210916
Hardcover
This unique study focuses on how the endowment assets of Oxford and Cambridge colleges are invested. Despite their shared missions, each interprets its investment objective differently, often resulting in remarkably dissimilar strategies. This thought provoking study provides new insights for all in…

Endowment Asset Management

investment strategies in oxford and cambridge

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  • Hardcover

    384 pages

  • Release Date

    19 April 2007

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Summary

There is a profound linkage between the quality of a university and its financial resources. The universities of Oxford and Cambridge rank among the world’s finest educational institutions, and are able to draw on invested assets that are large by any standards. Endowment Asset Management explores how the colleges that comprise these two great universities make their investment decisions.Oxford and Cambridge are collegiate institutions, eachconsisting of a federal university and over 30 const…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780199210916
ISBN-10:0199210918
Author:Shanta Acharya, Elroy Dimson
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:19 April 2007
Weight:707g
Dimensions:242mm x 162mm x 26mm
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Critics Review

A thought provoking read.

All in all, Archarya & Dimson are to be hugely praised for producing a really useful and solid book, full of thought-provoking and stimulating material David Palfreyman, Oxford Magazine A thought provoking read. Wealth Management

About The Author

Shanta Acharya

Shanta Acharya is Associate Director of the Initiative on Foundation and Endowment Asset Management at London Business School. Previously, she worked as an investment professional in Morgan Stanley Asset Management, Swiss Bank Corporation Portfolio Management International, Baring Asset Management and Bank of Ireland Asset Management. She holds a D.Phil from Oxford and was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard. Elroy Dimson is BGI Professor of Investment Management atLondon Business School, where he has served as Governor, chaired the Finance and Accounting groups, and been Dean of the MBA and Executive MBA programmes. His visiting positions have included the Bank ofEngland and the Universities of Chicago and California (Berkeley). Formerly President of the European Finance Association, Dr Dimson has published widely on investment management. He has advised foundations and endowments across Europe and the United States.

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