05 / 06 / 2012
by Charles Skorina | Comments are closed
A Total Enterprise Approach to Endowment Management
By Mark A. Schmid, VP & CIO and Que Nguyen, MD of Strategy - The University of Chicago
Introduction
The crisis of 2008 and the ensuing losses in risky portfolios, including endowment portfolios, continue to affect the financials of universities, despite the rebound in asset prices over the past two years. Although the smoothing inherent in most payout formulas dampened the immediate impact of investment losses, it also spread out the pain over a longer time period. Endowments have always been and continue to be institutions with a long term outlook for investments, but universities do have immediate financial obligations in their day to day operations.
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03 / 21 / 2012
by Charles Skorina | Comments are closed
Mellon’s John Hull Tops Non-Profit CIO Pay Rankings
Institutional Investor – March 15, 2012 • Frances Denmark
Charles Skorina had a problem. As an executive search consultant specializing in filling investment officer holes at pension funds and endowments, he was often asked by boards of trustees to produce metrics to aid in candidate comparisons. But in his 30 years in the search business, such data had proved hard to come by — that is, until late January. That’s when Skorina’s “CIO Performance-for-Pay” ranking (see chart below) hit the institutional investor zeitgeist.
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08 / 18 / 2010
by Charles Skorina | Comments are closed
Bloomberg: Help Wanted on Campus
By Gillian Wee - Aug 18, 2010
Bloomberg Markets Magazine
Top U.S. universities are looking for a new breed of investment manager who can be nimble in tough times.
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