Nonprofit investors expect portfolio growth | Philanthropy North Carolina

Nonprofit investors expect portfolio growth | Philanthropy North Carolina: Nonprofit institutional investors and pension funds expect portfolios to grow in 2013 and over the next three years and five years, a new survey says.

Among 217 institutional investors with combined assets of $123 billion who attended the Commonfund Forum and responded to the third annual Commonfund Investor Outlook Survey, investment in emerging markets also is expected to continue to grow.

Investors’ average forecast for the S&P 500 Index is for growth of 7.9 percent, with a median forecast of 8 percent.