Tag: OCIO Advisor

By Kathryn Mawer, CFA, CAIA Vice President / OCIO Advisor, FEG Investment Advisors What was your impression of 2020? I don’t know about you, but it seemed to me like “rolling with the punches” was the tagline for the entire year! Amid several critical macro-related events—hostile oil negotiations, the impact of COVID-19 on the global […]

By Kathryn Mawer, CFA, CAIA Vice President / OCIO Advisor, FEG Investment Advisors One question I often hear from people when their community foundation switches to an Outsourced-Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) model is, “I understand that the OCIO manages my donation, but who manages the OCIO?” Great question! What you may not see at first […]

By Kathryn Mawer, CFA, CAIA Vice President / OCIO Advisor, FEG Investment Advisors In the past inflation was expected to be approximately at the Federal Reserve’s target rate of 2%. And since the early 1980s, we have been close to that. But in October 2021, the consumer price index (CPI) leapt to 6.2%. The move […]

By Kathryn Mawer, CFA, CAIA Vice President / OCIO Advisor, FEG Investment Advisors The Community Foundation supports donors, families and nonprofit agencies in their endeavor to make a permanent impact on the community through the use of a long-term approach called an endowment. The endowment accepts, holds and invests donations from charitable contributors for distribution […]