Endowments and Foundations

Satisfying short-term demands while helping to build success for the long term

An OCIO that helps you achieve your unique set of goals

Your institution’s vision of success is unique. As your outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO), we partner with you to help achieve it. First, we seek to understand your mission and goals. Then, we create and implement an investment plan that seeks to support your spending needs and preserve your portfolio’s long-term purchasing power.

As your OCIO, it is our job – and ultimate objective – to build a portfolio to achieve your long-term goals and mission. To accomplish this, we apply our investment principles for endowments and foundations, which include an equity bias, adequate liquidity, prudent leverage, reducing the risk of permanent capital loss, and appropriate rebalancing. Comprehensive BBH OCIO solutions allow us to enhance your institution’s management and operations so you can succeed.

As an investor who has stewarded our own institution for over 200 years, our perspective can help your institution achieve its goals over long time horizons.

Setting an Asset Allocation for Endowments and Foundations

BBH Partner Suzanne Brenner and Deputy Chief Investment Officer Ilene Spitzer discuss special considerations to take into account when setting an asset allocation for endowments and foundations.

OCIO solutions to help endowments and foundations achieve their mission

  • Investment Advisory

    Partnership with the world’s best investment managers who are focused on preserving and growing institutional capital

  • Spending Rate Analysis

    Guidance establishing the appropriate spending policy for your organization

  • Investment Policy Statement

    Advice on the creation or review of your investment policy statement

  • Administration Services

    Trustee services that provide continuity while easing administrative burdens

  • Strategy, Operating, and Fundraising Advisory

    Objective advice to help you achieve your organization’s mission and goals

  • Lending

    Flexible, secured lending to help you implement strategies to achieve your objectives1

It is an honor to serve as OCIO for our endowment and foundation clients. By combining risk-adjusted results that enable them to further their work on important causes with support around critical strategic, operational, and fundraising issues, we go above and beyond to position them to achieve their mission and long-term success."



Investing for Forever: Considerations When Investing for Endowments and Foundations

We discuss factors that come into play when investing for endowments and foundations.

What Endowments & Foundations Should Know About Spending Rates

In this video, BBH Chief Investment Strategist Scott Clemons discusses current market dynamics, explains how to calculate your organization’s unique spending rate, and provides tangible solutions to organizations grappling with these issues.

The BBH OCIO difference

 

  • Investment office for hire: We are the closest firm to building out your own internal office, providing discretionary investment management, banking, lending, philanthropic advice, custody, and reporting services. We are a complete replication of the structure utilized by the largest and most successful endowments in the world. For endowments and foundations that choose not to amortize the cost of a fully built out internal team, we fill that void.
  • Extension of staff: We do not replace your team – we enhance it. We operate to make it feel like we are sitting on campus or in your foundation’s offices.
  • Expertise: We have been serving as an OCIO for more than 90 years. Our investment team is led by three former endowment and foundation office alumni.

1 Borrowed funds cannot be used to purchase securities in the portfolio.

This communication is for informational purposes only.  The information herein has not been based on a consideration of any individual investor’s circumstances and is not investment advice, nor should it be construed in any way as tax, accounting, legal or regulatory advice.  Individuals should consult their personal tax, accounting and legal advisers regarding any potential investment or strategy.  Any views and opinions are subject to change at any time.

This material does not constitute an offer or solicitation in any jurisdiction where or to any person to whom it would be unauthorized to do so.

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