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Southern Trust Approves Searches To Replace Two Managers
The fund approved conducting a search for a U.S. small-cap value equity manager and an international growth equity manager to replace two existing firms within its portfolio due to a decline in strategy assets.
08.26.26
New England University Hires New Firm To Manage Assets
The university hired a new firm to provide investment management services for its financial assets as well as those of its foundation following a search from last year.
08.26.26
Global Asset Manager Acquiring Multi-Asset Manager
The acquisition agreement will generate a combined diversified global asset manager overseeing approximately $571 billion in assets.
08.26.26
Northeast Foundation Makes Gift To UNCF To Strengthen HCBU Endowments
The foundation made a $12 million donation to the United Negro College Fund to provide permanent endowment capital to 12 selected member schools.
08.26.26
Southern University Adds Private Equity, Venture Commitments
The university approved adding new private equity managers as well as re-upping a commitment with an existing venture capital manager within its endowment.
08.26.26
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Midwest Healthcare Group Hires Principal Of Strategic Investments
The principal of strategic investments will evaluate prospective venture investments or partnerships with emerging technology firms, provide investment analysis and help with structuring deals.
08.26.26
Multi-Stage Venture Manager Launches Second Climate Technology Fund
The firm is launching a venture capital fund that will invest in early-stage companies using climate technology and artificial intelligence to improve real assets.
08.26.26
In The News
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.’
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.
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.
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.