Fixed-Income
Northeast State 457 Issues Fixed-Income RFP

The deferred compensation plan has issued an RFP for up to four fixed-income managers.

10.21.26
Administrator/Record Keeper
Pacific Northwest DC Plans Issue TPA RFP

The administrator will be responsible for more than $231 million in retirement assets.

10.23.26
Large-Cap
New England Pension Concludes Large-Cap Equity Manager Search

The plan hired one new manager and retained four in its search.

10.23.26
People Moves
TIAA Retirement Solutions CEO Departs

Kourtney Gibson, ceo of retirement solutions at TIAA, departed the firm at the end of September.

10.23.26
Real Estate
Midwest Police Pension Slates RE Debt Mgr. Interviews

The plan is slated to interview four finalists in its real estate debt manager search next week.

10.23.26
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Consultant/OCIO/Discretionary
Southwest 457 Plan Sticks With Consultant

The city announced that it will begin negotiating a contract with its incumbent after issuing an RFP in August.

10.23.26
Alternatives
Northeast Pension Approves Commitments

The pension fund approved up to $650 million in new private markets commitments at a meeting today.

10.22.26
In The News
Oil, Lawsuits, AI: Inside Harvard’s Increasingly Opaque $57 Billion Endowment

A Harvard Crimson analysis of nearly 3,400 tax records traced Harvard’s endowment through a sprawling network of outside funds, revealing investments tied to fossil fuels, litigation finance, private companies, catastrophe risk, and more.

Harvard Crimson
The Struggling Colleges Raiding Their Endowments to Pay the Bills

It’s the last resort for institutions on the brink: tapping restricted funds from donors to keep the lights on. ‘The money they donated is not being used for what they gave it for.’

Wall Street Journal
University Endowments Are About to Strike It Big on the SpaceX IPO

SpaceX is among the most widely held investments across colleges and universities, endowment executives say, likely making the rocket company’s coming IPO one of the great windfalls for American endowments.

Wall Street Journal
Princeton spared from endowment tax, PRINCO executive says, saving hundreds of millions

Princeton will not have to pay any net investment income tax on returns from its $36.4 billion endowment, a University investment official said at a private event in January, after a recent expansion of its undergraduate financial aid program left the University below a 3,000 tuition-paying student threshold to qualify for taxation.

Daily Princetonian
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