Idaho’s permanent endowment fund has outperformed its benchmark with a 3% gain in April 2011, The Spokesman Review reports. The fiscal year-to-date gain stands at 26.8%. The endowment fund faced a drop of about 2.1% in May till date. Receipts from endowment lands for the first nine months of the fiscal year show an increase of 5% from the same period in 2010.

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