re: Texas AM endowment supremacy challenged

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Could they ever actually change this and share with the rest of the state public schools like texas tech…university of north texas etc???? It always looked to me like a lot of schools were left with the short stick… but I do not know the ins and outs of this fund.

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Yes, the same way A&M was added in.

Not sure what you are trying to point out…

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Arkansas 1.2

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Arkansas' is 2.6 Billion.

FY 2021

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LSUs endowment is pitiful, hope that changes soon

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How would it? People would have to contribute to the academic endowment instead of just the TAF.

LSU is the only university in the country where the athletic endowment is larger than the academic endowment. That's understandable in a state where half the people can't read or write, and those, along with half the people who can, believe that education is a communist plot.

When you ask the average Louisianan, "What is LSU?" They'll tell you, "a football team".

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They should spend a little of that on football before they get here because they suck lately.

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I don't believe you understand how an endowment works and what the money is for.

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”Fossil fuels are a part of the natural resources portfolio and that portfolio played a very insignificant part of the growth in increasing Vanderbilt’s endowment— almost 5 percent,” Moravec said. “Instead of investing in an industry that is collectively harming all of society, which will ultimately hurt all investments in the future, Vanderbilt should divest.”

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Then you morons that believe propaganda and lies will never surpass us.

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lol...you’re too stupid to be an actual Texas grad. Most of the Aggies that contributed to the recent nine year, $4,200,000,000 “Higher Education” campaign, are well versed about the PUF. For the uneducated, that fund raiser came from the alumni. Over 903,000 gifts and donations Not the PUF. However,,the PUF greatly benefits the entire state. Dozens of universities, medical systems, law schools, vet schools, and more. Think about that, the Aggies raised more money on a fund raiser than the total endowment funds of any school in the SEC except Vanderbilt. Compare that to the embarrassing level of support the “flagship” university of Louisiana gets from its alumni and fan base. Educating people, benefiting society the Aggies do well at. Being a farm team of the NFL, not so well. Those football players thinking of life after football will do much better with an opportunity at Texas A&M.

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Accurate headline would be "value of $1 dollar plummets, now would cost more of them to buy Vanderbilt's endowment"

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BTW, it's really hard for me to take you seriously on PUF knowledge when you referred to it as the "Public Utility Fund".



Lol, yeah get caught up in that obvious brain glitch while I just ignore you know nothing about transfers vs pledges & a dividend distribution vs principal controlled endowment.

I'd love to hear you share your vast knowledge of the PUF that they taught you in fish camp though.

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I enjoy politics and understanding how things work. Once again though this stuff is boring AF to most people, especially those from other SEC schools on a football board where it has nothing to do with athletics.

All the info on the PUF is publicly available. It's not hard to find. BTW, it takes a Constitutional Amendment to add or change who gets PUF money and to significantly change it, it isn't just at the whims of the Legislature. Since part of that is a 2/3rds vote of said Leg there is no freaking way with A&M and Texas' combined political power that any change that works against those 2 schools will happen. A&M and Texas hate each other in a lot of ways but the schools actually work together politically on virtually all issues as it benefits them both to effectively control policy, they even have an "Orange and Maroon Day" at the beginning of every Legislative session where reps from both schools together visit every Leg member to remind them of this and what they are looking for in that session.

FWIW both schools really don't rely on the PUF for funding as much as they used to, it's really just for building and infrastructure. Both schools have grown enormously rich outside of the PUF but the PUF is a huge security blanket for both. They haven't taken distributions from the principal in nearly a century. Mainly that PUF money is a monster advantage for both schools because they have that reserve always there that dwarfs other Public Universities. As I said earlier the irony is it is actually undervalued significantly, it is actually worth a lot more if it took current market value to look at what it is worth. It's basically 2.1 million acres of land in West Texas that is loaded with minerals and O&G. They gave it to the PUF long ago when that land was seen as worthless because it was dry and had no timber, basically you could just use it for grazing if you didn't get Indians or cattle rustlers stealing it. Then after the turn of the century when they figured out what was underneath it was literally better than a goldmine.

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According to the 2021 Vanderbilt Financial Report, this rise is mainly attributed to Vanderbilt’s increase in investment in fiscal year (FY) 2021 compared to FY 2020. The university invested $3,919 million more in 2021 than in 2020, a 56 percent increase in investments.

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So over half their money wasn't even invested?

Vandy's new investment consultant.