Endowment
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Endowment may refer to many things:
[edit] Finance
- Financial endowment; relating to funds or property donated to institutions or individuals
- Endowment (Life insurance); payment of the face value of a life insurance policy, usually at age 98-120
- Endowment mortgage; a mortgage to be repaid by an endowment policy
- Endowment policy; a life assurance policy designed to build a capital sum at a pre-determined date
[edit] Other
- Endowment (Philosophy); as a philosophical term
- Endowment (Latter Day Saints); a special gift of heavenly priesthood power in Latter Day Saint theology
- Endowment (Economics); a cause of loss aversion
- Endowment; A term for when one person's traits are given to another magically in The Runelords saga.
- Endowment can also be a term used for reclaimed land
- Endowment effect is a cognitive bias