2022 Impact Report: Vision to Action

April 27, 2023

Key Takeaways from 2022

1. Impact Without Concession: At Global Endowment Management (GEM), our impact investment managers continue to build our conviction that we can deliver positive outcomes without sacrificing returns.

2. Impact, Not ESG: We at GEM believe that ESG investing and impact investing are fundamentally different. While both are important, growing concerns and controversy about the rigor of ESG investing underscores our commitment to impact investing to drive outcomes for people and the planet. 

3. Advancing the Field: After identifying gaps in the market for commodities and public real estate strategies that meet our rigorous impact and return expectations, our team innovated.

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Recent Insights

In Defense of the Endowment Model, Accurately Assessed

In the second of his three-part series on the Endowment Model, Deputy CIO Matt Bank examines the incomplete quantitative arguments around endowment performance and offers a more substantive evaluation framework.

Endowments and foundations race to outsource investment management

As many smaller endowments and foundations opt to outsource their investment management, the Financial Times spoke to GEM's Deputy CIO Matt Bank about how this arrangement can be beneficial to such institutions.

In Defense of the Endowment Model, Rightly Understood

The first of Deputy CIO Matt Bank’s new series, The Long View, reaffirms GEM’s belief that the Endowment Model – in the right hands, for the right institutions – remains a compelling means of achieving risk-adjusted returns.

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