Advanced Risk Management - Commonfund’s Differentiated Approach

For institutional investors, risk is the fuel that generates portfolio returns. At Commonfund, risk management is the process of harnessing that risk fuel in the pursuit of better returns for our investors.

As Figure I indicates, to capture those returns, investors’ money must go on a round-trip into the capital markets and back. This involves passing through financial intermediaries, custodians and asset managers and into economic assets that will produce returns. At Commonfund, our