Investment Fund Performance
Q4 2023 UPDATE / January 04, 2024
Investment Update
Q4 2023 strongly grew gains built throughout 2023 for the Diversified Fund and Endowment Investment Fund with the following takeaways:
- The U.S. economy continues to remain resilient; recession worries pushed to 2024 while economic growth and unemployment continue to beat expectations
- S. Equity Markets finished the year with gains of 26.3% after seeing a near 10% correction in the early part of the quarter.
- The Consumer Price Index measuring inflation falls to 3.1% in latest reading with key contributions from the fall in oil and shelter prices.
- Fed signals potential end to rate hikes in this Fed Hiking Cycle and exploring more rate cuts than initially planned in 2024.
- S&P 500 comes within 0.3% of all-time high last seen on January 3, 2022 almost exactly two years ago.
U.S. stocks in the S&P 500 were strongly up 11.7% for the quarter. Small-cap stocks in the Russell 2000 gained 14.0%. International developed market stocks in the MSCI EAFE Index increased 10.4%. Bonds in the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index finished up 6.8%.
Benchmark performance will be available later this month once the Lipper Median returns are released.
| Dec. 31, 2023 Performance | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| FUND | QTD | 1-YR | 3-YR |
Diversified Fund | 8.5% | 13.2% | 0.0% |
Endowment Investment | 8.5% | 13.2% | 0.0% |
Fixed Income | 6.4% | 7.5% | (2.4%) |
Fund Details – Q3 2023
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