Scheer: Cincinnati endowment halved fixed income allocation to 15% in one year
Karl Scheer · Karl Scheer – Competing Sensibly as CIO of the University of Cincinnati (EP.74) · Oct 29, 2018 · at 26:34
Karl Scheer discusses strategic asset allocation restructuring following his appointment at the University of Cincinnati endowment.
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“We had, I guess I'll just get specific, we had about 30% in fixed income when I arrived, and we dropped that immediately to 15%. When I say immediately, we had a responsible staged migration that took about one year”
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