Selin Amado

Penn Office of Investments’ endowment is invested in the Associated Investments Fund (AIF), a pooled investment vehicle in which the many individual endowments and trusts hold units. The Office of Investments manages the AIF. A distinguished Investment Board, consisting of Penn alumni and University leadership, oversees the activities of the Office. They seek to share the University’s time horizon with their partners, providing them with stable, patient, and contrarian long-term capital. In both public and private markets, Penn Office of Investments views investments as the ownership of stakes in underlying businesses. They evaluate investments based upon the fundamental value created by the businesses over time, not by short-term performance relative to a benchmark.

Functions as a College/University

Verdis seeks to produce attractive long-term, risk-adjusted investment results, manage risks, and perform well in markets where investment conditions are difficult. The firm generally employs a “manager of managers” or fund-of-funds approach in providing advisory services to the Funds, whereby the firm makes recommendations or has discretion to make decisions as to the investment of capital with third party Managers (either through the retention of such manager as a sub-adviser to a portion of the Account or investment of Account assets in a pooled investment vehicle advised by the Manager).

Functions as a College/University