004 · The Findings

What we found.

93 Investment Policy Statements, scored 1–5 against the rubric across 14 domains. No plan is named here and none can be worked out: plans appear once, as opaque numbers, in a single list. Everything else is a distribution.

93
plans scored
3.53
median overall
3.44
mean overall
2.33–4.25
range

How the universe scores

Overall score, 16 bins of 0.25. The rust line is the median.

median · 3.53 1 2 3 4 5 Excellent 0 Strong 50 Adequate 40 Weak 3 Deficient 0

Top overall

The only place a plan is labelled — and only with a number that means nothing else on this site.

PlanOverall
Plan 764.25
Plan 394.06
Plan 154.04
Plan 73.96
Plan 233.96
Plan 323.94
Plan 43.92
Plan 293.90
Plan 343.90
Plan 493.90

By domain

Mean score per rubric domain. Rust bars are core domains (they drive the overall score); grey are optional.

Scope, Purpose & Coverage 4.36 Investment Objectives 3.53 Investment Philosophy 3.36 Risk Tolerance & Risk Philosophy 3.14 Time Horizon & Constraints 2.91 Liquidity & Cash Flow Management 2.42 Spending / Distribution Policy 2.06 Strategic Asset Allocation 3.99 Rebalancing Policy 3.37 Performance Measurement & Benchmarks 3.59 Governance & Decision-Making 4.33 Monitoring, Reporting & Review 4.00 Implementation & Manager Oversight 3.61 Responsible Investment / ESG 2.10

By category

Category means average every domain in the category, optional ones included — so they aren't directly comparable to the overall score.

Governance & Oversight 4.17 Objectives Clarity 3.75 Risk Framework 2.82 Portfolio Design 3.14 Implementation and Oversight 3.60 Responsible Investing/ESG 2.10

Most common critical gaps

68 of 93 plans (73.12%) have at least one domain flagged as a critical gap.

DomainPlansShare
Spending / Distribution Policy5761.29%
Liquidity & Cash Flow Management2729.03%
Rebalancing Policy1617.2%
Time Horizon & Constraints66.45%
Performance Measurement & Benchmarks22.15%
Risk Tolerance & Risk Philosophy22.15%
Strategic Asset Allocation22.15%
Implementation & Manager Oversight11.08%
Monitoring, Reporting & Review11.08%

By lens

Each domain is scored through four lenses; this is the mean of every lens score in the universe.

Presence & clarity 3.48 Quantification & enforceability 2.68 Consistency & structure 3.89 Governance & process 3.32

Recent rewrites vs the universe

27 plans adopted or revised their IPS in the last twelve months. Their median is 3.67 against the universe's 3.53. Distribution only — no rows.

recent median · 3.67 1 2 3 4 5