Investment Performance
The Foundation has a solid record of investing. Over the years, investment performance has consistently met internal performance goals and outperformed many peer organizations, ranking in the first or high second investment quartile. The long-term investment pool's 15-year return of 6.4% has accomplished the mission of preserving the spending power of the endowment while enduring two historic market moving events in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and the 2020 Great Coronavirus Recession.
Long-Term Investment Pool Asset Allocation
By investing assets, the Foundation seeks to preserve the purchasing power of gifts while providing steady earnings for Texas A&M. The Foundation’s long-term investment pool, which has a total value of $1.9 billion, is composed mostly of endowments, but also includes other non-endowed funds invested for the long term.