65/35 Mix, calculated by TAS, consists of 65% MSCI All Country World Index and 35% Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index. Weights are rebalanced by TAS at each month-end; those from July 1, 2009, through December 31, 2015, reflected quarter-end rebalancing.
Alpha is the excess return of an investment relative to the return of a passive benchmark index. Alpha may be positive or negative and is the result of active investing.
Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index covers the US dollar-denominated, investment grade, fixed-rate, taxable bond market. The index includes bonds from the Treasury, Government-Related, Corporate, MBS (agency fixed-rate and hybrid ARM pass-throughs), ABS, and CMBS sectors. This index is a component of the US Universal index in its entirety.
Consumer Price Index + 5% per annum is based on the Consumer Price Index-All Urban Consumers (CPI- U), a widely recognized measure of US inflation that represents changes in the prices paid by consumers for a representative basket of goods and services. CPI + 5% per annum was selected as the primary benchmark for TIFF Multi-Asset Fund because, in the opinion of TIP’s directors, it reflects the two-fold objectives of maintaining an endowment’s purchasing power (i.e., keeping pace with inflation) while complying with the 5% payout requirement to which most TIFF members are subject.
CSI 300 Index tracks 300 stocks traded in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges.
Duration is a measure of the sensitivity of the price of a bond or other fixed income instrument to a change in interest rates. In general, the higher the duration, the more a bond’s price will drop as interest rates rise (and the greater the interest rate risk).
MSCI All Country World IndexSM is a free-float adjusted market capitalization-weighted index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of developed and emerging markets. Unlike certain other broad-based indices, the number of stocks included in the MSCI All Country World Index is not fixed and may vary to enable the index to continue to reflect the primary home markets of the constituent countries. MSCI All Country World Index returns include reinvested dividends, gross of foreign withholding taxes through December 31, 2000 and net of foreign withholding tax thereafter.
MSCI China Index tracks large and mid-cap segments of the China equity universe across China H shares, B shares, P chips, and foreign listings and is comprised of 150 constituents.
MSCI World Index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization weighted index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of developed markets. As of January 31, 2023, the Index consisted of the following 23 developed market countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Russell 1000 Index tracks the largest 1,000 US companies.
Russell 2000 Index (Russell 2000 Total Return Index) is a market capitalization weighted index that measures the performance of the small-cap segment of the US equity universe. The index is a subset of the Russell 3000 Index representing approximately 10% of the total market capitalization of that index. It includes approximately 2,000 of the smallest securities based on a combination of their market cap and current index membership.
S&P 500 Index (S&P 500 Total Return Index) includes 500 companies in leading industries of the US economy, capturing 75% coverage of US equities. The S&P 500 Index is maintained by the S&P Index Committee, based on published guidelines governing additions to and removal from the index. Criteria for index additions include US companies, market capitalization in excess of $4 billion, public float, financial viability, adequate liquidity and reasonable price, sector representation, and company type. Criteria for index removals include violating or no longer meeting one or more criteria for index inclusion.