INVESTMENT TOPICS

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The Investment Topics section presents all of TEF's written material - including articles, speeches, and commentary - organized by topic: endowment management, market environment, risk tolerance, and asset classes.

• Endowment Management includes subjects such as an organization’s investment policies, asset allocation, manager selection, spending policy, and costs related to investing.
  

  Areas discussed:
  Policy Portfolio Construction
  Asset Allocation
  Fees and Terms
  Manager Selection
  Behavioral Economics and Finance
  Socially Responsible Investing

• Market Environment refers to the behavior of global capital markets and countries as well as to more narrow sectors that may be taken into account when making an investment decision.

  Areas discussed:
  China
  South Africa
  Education
  Internet

• Risk Tolerance discusses risk tolerance, or the amount of risk an investor is willing to take given his or her return goal, a topic of paramount importance in investment decision-making and endowment management.

  Areas discussed:
  Measuring Risk
  Types of Risk
  Risk versus Reward

• Asset Classes discusses various asset classes, which are often described as groups of securities that exhibit similar characteristics and behavior. Two well-known asset classes, for example, are stocks and bonds.

  Areas discussed:
  Equities
  Inflation-Linked Bonds
  Nominal Bonds
  Alternative Investments (Absolute Return; Private Equity)
  Real Estate
  Emerging Markets