# Professor David Yermack's joint research on the performance of endowment funds is featured

Faculty News

— February 15, 2019

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Excerpt from [ETF.com](https://www.etf.com/sections/index-investor-corner/swedroe-when-endowments-lag?nopaging=1) -- "Dahiya and Yermack found that the performance of the typical endowment fund was so poor that it would have earned substantially higher returns if its trustees had followed a simplistic investment strategy of holding 100% Treasury bonds and taken no equity market risk whatsoever."

[Read more](https://www.etf.com/sections/index-investor-corner/swedroe-when-endowments-lag?nopaging=1)