<p>Michigan usually releases endowment figures in late September, but they have not done so this year. Has anybody heard? Our endowment last July stood at $7.8 billion (tied with Columbia at 6th in the nation).</p>
<p>no where to go but up given a whole year of risk-on environment. However, everyone else’ endowment number should increase too. How much the increases are come down to the % in equity.</p>
<p>bearcats, almost no university posted a double digit percentage return on investment of the ones that have released results this year. Harvard was --0.05%, Penn/Stanford/Duke were ~+1-2%, Yale was ~+5%, Dartmouth was about ~+6%, MIT did well at +8%, etc. However, even though Yale had a nice investment return, the total value of their fund actually went down since they used more of their endowment money this past year for university operations.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/oct/17/dartmouth-columbia-endowments-post-subdued-returns/?cross-campus[/url]”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/oct/17/dartmouth-columbia-endowments-post-subdued-returns/?cross-campus</a></p>
<p>I wouldn’t really expect a big change up or down this year.</p>
<p>Realistically, I expect Michigan’s endowment to hover between $7.6 and $8.2 billion when the new figures are released. </p>
<p>Chicago’s endowment increased from $6.3 to $6.5 billion.</p>
<p>The endowment is currently valued at $7.7 billion after a loss of 0.5% over the last year (still beating the median loss of 1.0%). Endowment distributions however increased, from $266,000,000 in 2011 to $270,000,000 in 2012.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.vpcomm.umich.edu/pa/key/documents/2012ProfileReport.pdf[/url]”>http://www.vpcomm.umich.edu/pa/key/documents/2012ProfileReport.pdf</a></p>