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22/12/16

Thanks 2016

The Growth Fund has three funds now live, plus five offers made. There are three further applications currently in the due diligence stage. We are seeing a strong pipeline with a wide range of different sorts of organisations applying. Simon recently updated on progress and the themes we are seeing. A key part of our […]

02/09/16

Turning our vision into reality – the first steps

You may have seen our announcement a couple of weeks ago that we are partnering with Rathbones who will manage our endowment – the culmination of months of thinking about how we invest using a “total impact approach”, how we engage with the investment community and how we determine which asset manager is best able […]

04/02/16

Pause for thought

I last wrote before Christmas to update on our progress on the management of our endowment, namely, how best we invest the £60m endowment from the Cabinet Office using a “total impact” approach. We received detailed proposals from the shortlisted asset managers in early January and went about reviewing them as an endowment working group. […]

14th December 2015

And then there were three…

Over the last month, we have made some significant progress on the management of our endowment. We are considering how best we invest the £60m endowment from the Cabinet Office using a “total impact” approach. Following the thinking of the endowment working group over the past few months, we began engaging with a number of […]

29th October 2015

Hitting the Bull’s Eye

It’s been a while since my last update, however since I last wrote, the endowment working group has met together on a further two occasions, to consider how best we invest our £60m endowment from the Cabinet Office. In my last blog, I talked about aiming for “The Investment Sweet Spot” – this is the […]

04/09/15

Risks and returns

The endowment working group met again last week to consider how best we invest our £60m endowment from the Cabinet Office. We began by looking at different portfolio scenarios, generated using our financial model. We considered how the mix of assets would impact both the financial return of the portfolio as well as the financial […]

18/08/15

Blue and Red Investing

The Group has been established to consider how best we invest our £60m endowment from the Cabinet Office during the next ten years before we use the funds to make grants, in grants in a way that generates the maximum social impact. We met last week and it was an invigorating and thought provoking discussion! […]

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