As market conditions look set to change dramatically, higher-education endowments can still achieve excess returns if they go about building their portfolio with strong equities exposure and strategies from smaller managers, according to a recent paper from TIFF Investment Management.

“We would argue that the excess returns that some of these organizations earned, and that we have earned in the recent past, are in fact sustainable,” said Matt Hoehn, co-head of customized asset allocation for the outsourced chief investment officer.

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