June 3, 2005

Investment Strategies at Other Small Colleges

By ERIN STROUT

T ransylvania University is not the only small or midsize institution that has found ways to build an endowment. Hamilton College, in upstate New York, with an endowment of $486-million in the 2004 fiscal year, enjoyed 18-percent returns last year, compared with the average of 15 percent.

Peter J. Blanchfield, chief investments officer at Hamilton, has a 15-person trustee committee that meets six times a year to review endowment performance, asset allocation, investment policy, due

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