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Endowment Delivers an Exceptionally Confident Report Card
· New York time
Harvard's endowment returned 27% in fiscal 2026, with SpaceX its top holding, CNBC reports. The result puts a buoyant investment figure beside a university institution more often discussed through classes, research and fundraising. An endowment brings financial markets into the long life of an academic institution. Its annual result is a measure of investment performance, while the university's ongoing work spans many years. Those clocks can tick at noticeably different speeds. SpaceX's place at the top of the portfolio gives the result an unusually literal association with rockets. The campus metaphor almost writes itself: one investment report has arrived at the reunion with a story about going into space. The laboratories still have their own work to finish, preferably without every budget discussion beginning with a countdown.
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