The Calgary Foundation’s transition from a heavy domestic public market asset mix to a diversified portfolio opened the doors to a larger investible universe and minimized volatility, said Jessica Mitchell, an investment associate at the organization, during a session at the Canadian Investment Review’s 2025 Endowment & Foundation Investment Forum. “The questions that we asked […]
In the years following the 2008/09 financial crisis, Dan Langlois realized the allocation strategy for the Calgary Foundation’s endowment portfolio needed a significant adjustment if it planned to meet its annual funding goals. “I knew we needed to do something in terms of increasing the return in the portfolio to preserve the corpus or the […]