There is significant interest in how university endowments manage money and perform, and an emerging strand of finance research specializes in this growing area. The purpose of this paper is to survey and review the state-of-the-art in this field. We classify papers into four areas. (1) asset...

University endowments differ from other institutions in that donation income and spending rates are of equal importance to asset allocation decisions. Our paper develops an optimal endowment framework with endogenous donations income through a feedback dependence based on investment performance....

There is significant interest in how university endowments manage money and perform, and an emerging strand of finance research specializes in this growing area. The purpose of this paper is to survey and review the state-of-the-art in this field. We classify papers into four areas. (1) asset...