Mike Hennessy

Smith Breeden Associates employs a variety of investment strategies including indexing, hedging, social screening and quantitative. Though not limited by sector or market-cap, the firm tends to invest in the stocks of companies in the finance, energy minerals, electronic technology, healthcare technology and consumer non-durables sectors. They invest globally, across all market-caps, with emphasis on the stocks of large-cap companies. SBA's fixed-income approach seeks to determine a fixed-income security's relative value. The firm employs quantitative research to identify high credit quality investments with the potential to generate risk-adjusted returns in excess of market returns. Their primary determinant of relative value is the option-adjusted spread to US Treasuries. The firm's fixed-income investment strategy is designed to generate a consistent and predictable return over the client's preferred benchmark. SBA's strategy emphasizes sector and security selection, duration targeting and high credit quality. The firm uses proprietary models to project mortgage prepayments, to identify price options embedded in agency MBS and corporate bonds, to price corporate bond credit risk, as well as to predict the future returns of major asset classes.

Functions as a College/University

DUMAC seeks to achieve an annualized real rate of return to fund the University’s spending and to allow for growth of the endowment after considering the effects of inflation. The firm measures actual allocation of investment exposures against target allocations articulated in their investment policy.

Morgan Creek’s investment process and strategy embraces the Endowment Model, which is characterized by a focus on asset allocation as the primary driver of return, a value orientation, an appreciation for the liquidity premium, an opportunistic approach to assessing the role of investments within a portfolio, and a forward-thinking, dynamic ability to continuously challenge conventional thinking. Their primary macroeconomic investment themes are forward-looking and long-term (5 to 10 years).

ND-IM aims to earn superior risk-adjusted returns on the University's endowment pool. The firm focuses on international, private capital and alternative investments. Their investment approach is based on the following principles: (1) a long-term time horizon consistent with the perpetual nature of a university, (2) a multi-asset diversified approach with emphasis on equity and equity-like investments for long-term capital appreciation well in excess of inflation, (3) emphasis on less efficient, less liquid, areas of the capital markets where there is high potential for generating significant alpha above a benchmark and (4) the belief that active management can add value versus a benchmark. ND-IM invests in international equities program and in emerging market equities.

Functions as a College/University