Multi-Asset/Investment Advisor
Southern College Foundation Issues Investment Management RFP

The foundation has issued an RFP seeking a non-discretionary investment manager to handle a minimum of $15 million and maximum of $20 million of its portfolio.

06.25.26
People Moves
Financial Services Firm Hires Head Of Investor Relations

The firm has hired a head of investor relations to lead its strategy with a focus on strengthening how it communicates its long-term growth strategy and financial performance to the investment community.

06.25.26
Emerging/Diverse Managers
Nonprofits Must Follow Data, Talent Pipelines To Advance Diversity In Portfolios: DAMI

Two foundations are working toward making their portfolios more diverse through the networks of diverse talent percolating in the asset management industry as well as data showing diverse investment talent outperforms.

06.25.26
People Moves
Midwest Foundation Promotes Sr. Program Officer To Lead PRI Portfolio

The foundation has tabbed a grantmaking senior program officer to spearhead program-related investments within its impact investment portfolio.

06.25.26
People Moves
Northeast University Names Next Finance Head As CFO Set To Retire

The university has appointed the senior v.p. for business and finance at a southern university as its next finance head as its current cfo and treasurer is retiring after more than 30 years of service.

06.25.26
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Fixed-Income
Southern University Seeks Fixed-Income Managers

The university is seeking fixed-income managers to handle separately managed mandates for three of its investment pools totaling approximately $284 million in assets.

06.25.26
Small- to Mid-Cap
Southern Community Foundation Replaces Smid-Cap Mgr., Adds Private Markets Commitments

The foundation replaced a domestic small- to mid-cap equity manager after it had underperformed its benchmark since inception and added three private markets commitments in the first half of 2026.

06.25.26
In The News
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
Yale Endowment, Managing $44 Billion, Eyes Korean Stocks Amid 'Value-Up' Push

Officials from Yale University’s endowment, which manages over 65 trillion won ($44 billion) in assets, are set to visit Korea to discuss investments with domestic asset managers. As expectations for a re-rating of Korean equities grow on the back of the government’s corporate value-up initiative and expanding shareholder returns, even global university endowments are now scouting investment opportunities in the country.

Seoul Economic Daily
President’s Annual “State of the University” Letter 2026: From Growth to Focus

Princeton needs to transition from growth to focus because long-term rates of return are steadily declining across university endowments. This decline has been hard to see because returns have been volatile. In other words, returns have not been a steady 8 percent or 10 percent; instead, they have been all over the map.

Princeton University
RFP: Domestic Small-Cap Equity - Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions
LAFPP seeks at least one new qualified active domestic small cap equity manager for its public
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