Critical Oriented Academic Analysis of the Optimal Portfolio Allocation Applied by Harvard Management Company in the Management of Endowment Funds

The primary scope of the presented study was to provide a critical analysis of the most relevant issues related with the endowment fund of the prestigious Harvard Management Company. With the intention of providing an explicit overview of the issues discussed throughout this case analysis, the first section focused upon elaborating the advantages and, disadvantages related with the optimal portfolio allocation. The second part on the other hand, aimed at conducting a profound analysis on the methods utilized by Harvard Management in the process of determining the capital market assumptions. final section of the study, which on the same time is the very most significant section of the assignment critically discussed the beneficial and, hammering consequences deriving from the potential incorporation of TIPS in the asset classes characterizing Harvard Management’s multibillion endowment fund