Wilton's Commonfund Says Nonprofits Averaging 21 Percent ROI

Offer someone a 21 percent return on their personal investment and they're likely to jump at the chance, after they pick their jaw up off the floor.

That's the rate that nonprofits are averaging on their own investments recently, Wilton-based Commonfund is reporting according to the Associated Press. Those returns are the "highest they've seen in years."

The bad news is that coupled with the losses most nonprofits endured during the recession, "total recovery could take as long as a decade."

Read the full story: Nonprofits See Investment Returns Jump in 2009.