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The boom in U.S. stock prices drove the high returns. “Whenever the stock market does well, endowments just like other institutional investors tend to do very well. So last fiscal year the year that ended June 30 the stock market as measured by the S&P 500 did about 40.8 percent, which is astounding,” said Ken Redd, director of research and policy analysis at the National Association of College and University Business Officers. “So whenever you get a major stock index like that rising, we tend to get very high endowment returns.” Other assets, including venture capital, private equity funds and hedge funds, also saw increased performance last fiscal year. Large endowments of $500 million or more are more likely to be invested in venture capital and private equity, whereas small endowments worth $50 million or less invest primarily in U.S. equities, according to the most recent endowment study by NACUBO. ....
For all undergraduates, the average tuition discount rate in 2020-21 ticked up to 48.1 percent, a 2.2-percentage-point increase from the year prior, according to the study. During the 2019-20 academic year, the average discount rate for all undergraduates fell slightly from the year before, from 46 percent to 45.9 percent. This year, NACUBO’s annual tuition discounting study is based on survey responses from business officers at 361 nonprofit colleges and universities across the country. The study defines the tuition discount rate for first-time undergraduates as the total institutional grant aid awarded to first-time, full-time undergraduates as a percentage of the gross tuition revenue an institution would collect if all students paid the sticker price. The formula for all undergraduates is similar. ....
Media Credit: Skylar Epstein | Staff Photographer GW s endowment growth remained positive this year, avoiding the drop in value experienced by some of the University s peers endowments. News By Ryan Anastasio Mar 1, 2021 12:06 AM The University’s endowment growth for fiscal year 2020 is consistent with its peer institutions but falls slightly below the national average. GW’s endowment increased in value by 1.35 percent in FY 2020, which ran from July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020, ticking up from $1.779 billion to $1.803 billion. In an analysis of 705 institutions that included GW’s peers, the National Association of College and University Business Officers found that the University’s endowment return was slightly lower than the national average of 1.8 percent. ....
3 Small endowments are more concentrated in fixed-income assets, such as bonds, according to the study. About a third of investments held in small endowments, which hold $50 million or less, are fixed income, and around 40 percent are invested in U.S. equities. Small endowments invest less than 1 percent of their value in private equity. By comparison, large endowments holding $500 million or more invest between 11 percent and 15 percent in fixed-income assets and put between 5 percent and 11 percent in private equity. Large endowments also invest between 17 percent and 21 percent in marketable alternatives, which NACUBO defines as hedge funds, absolute return, market neutral, long/short, 130/30, and event-driven and derivatives strategies. ....