Foundations are among our longest-standing clients. Hammond Associates has an experienced professional Consulting staff, the members of which are proficient at supporting foundation staff and Board members in assessing the Foundation’s distribution requirements, goals and tolerance for risk, and matching these to realistic estimates of investment returns. Our Research Group statistically analyzes these parameters to develop a set of feasible investment strategies, which are used to project an array of potential outcomes. From these data a client institution can choose an effective, sustainable investment strategy suited to its specific set of needs.
Hammond Associates specializes in an educational approach to investment consulting, in which we work to instruct our clients in the opportunities that exist in the real world of financial markets, and our clients instruct us in their needs, their goals and their willingness to invest. We put this mutually learned knowledge to work in a sound, robust investment strategy that is based on the best abstract research, but adapted for the real world.