An astonishing two-thirds of big university endowments are invested in hedge funds and other alternative investments that actually have delivered zero outperformance since the 2008 global financial ...

Compensation for managers at the biggest college and university endowments frequently doesn’t square with the performance of their funds, according to a Bloomberg survey of wages and raises for top ...

The University of New England and University of Maine grew their investments more than 30% and 19% respectively in 2025.

Private universities with large endowments are fretting over a provision in the House-passed “big, beautiful” bill that would significantly raise the tax rate on their annual investment income. House ...

Columbia University’s large population of international students has helped the school avoid paying a tax on its roughly $15 billion endowment. Now, that’s poised to change as President Donald Trump ...

President Donald Trump is working with Congress to raise taxes on university endowments, a move many college administrators — including Duke’s — say would put further pressure on financial aid ...

The "one big beautiful" tax-and-spending package President Donald Trump signed on Friday included several significant changes for higher education — among them, an increased tax on the endowment ...