3️⃣CFRM 532: Endowment & Institutional Investment Management

Once a week, you get to listen to some C-suite executive with decades of industry experience break their passion down for you, and ask questions along the way. Met some friends in the MBA program too.

Institutional investing taught by the University of Washington Investment Management Company (UWINCO) endowment team and prominent external fund managers. The course format will combine lectures and case studies. Guest speakers provide capital market and asset class reviews along with current practice and opportunities. Throughout the quarter, students will have the opportunity to explore a variety of investment topics and interact with outside investment managers and CIO’s to discuss unique investment strategies. Course topics include: endowment policy and philosophy, spending and asset allocation, currency strategy, emerging markets investing, quantitative equity investment strategies, hedge funds, private equity, and fixed income. Reading assignments will form the basis for class discussion.