title: Hedging their bets. Strong market performance is delivering pleasantly surprising results for investments made by not-for-profits.
abstract: CFOs aren't partying like it's the 1990s, but healthcare portfolios did deliver double-digit increases in 2003, a Commonfund Institute survey said. Executives, seeking to avoid losses, have invested in controversial hedge funds, which have become a little too popular, says the institute's executive director, John Griswold, left.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Barr
mesh_terms: D002202:Capital Financing / Q000639:trends*; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000639:trends*; D006788:Hospitals, Voluntary / Q000191:economics*; D007449:Investments / Q000145:classification / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends*; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States