5 Questions
5 Questions With Mariner Institutional MD Troy Brown

Troy Brown is a managing director at Mariner Institutional, where he is responsible for ensuring department functions, directives, structure, staff, and policies and procedures. He took the time to answer 5 Questions, plus a bonus one, with FIN News.

07.20.26
Hedge Funds
Rocky Mountain Pension Terminates Hedge Fund Mgr.

The retirement plan terminated a global macro hedge fund manager in the first quarter.

07.21.26
Private Equity
Michigan Pension Adds PE Secondaries Commitment

The retirement system committed to the next fund in a series after its last commitment to the manager in 2022.

07.21.26
Consultant/OCIO/Discretionary
Windy City Pension Launches Consultant RFP

The plan hired its current investment consultant following its last search for the services in 2021.

07.21.26
Against Consensus
Against Consensus Podcast: Waymond Harris on Managing Capital at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

On this episode of Against Consensus, host Angelo Calvello, PhD, sits down with Waymond Harris, CFA, Senior Vice President and Treasurer of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and President of Bricktown Capital.

07.21.26
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Consultant/OCIO/Discretionary
West Coast Pension Issues Investment Consultant RFP

The pension plan has been with its current consultant for over 10 years.

07.20.26
Industry News
GoldenTree Closes Second Private Credit Fund

GoldenTree Asset Management closed its second private credit fund at its hard cap of $2.75 billion.

07.20.26
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
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