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Juneteenth Special Feature

Today, we proudly unveil our seventh annual special edition of FIN Daily, dedicated to honoring Juneteenth.

06.19.26
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Family Legacy, Juneteenth Drive Blueprint’s Walthour

The importance of both Juneteenth and the idea of helping others was instilled in Jacob Walthour Jr.’s consciousness from birth.

06.19.26
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In Mission-Aligned Investing, Marguerite Casey Leads By Example

Daniel Gould has learned a great deal from serving as v.p. of investments and operations at the Marguerite Casey Foundation over the last five years, helping the Seattle-based foundation surpass its goal of allocating half of its approximately $850 million investment portfolio to diverse managers.

06.19.26
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Black-Owned Firms Manage Over $300B

Total assets managed by Black-owned asset managers has surpassed $300 billion, new data from FIN Searches shows.

06.19.26
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HBCU Founders Initiative Accelerating Entrepreneurship At Black Institutions

Pre-seed venture accelerator Nex Cubed and CEO Marlon Evans launched the HBCU Founders Initiative five years ago to engage Historically Black college and university students and alumni interested in developing solutions to close the wealth gap, ranging from increasing access to healthcare, education and financial services.

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NASP Maintains Focus On Impact Through 40-Year History

The National Association of Securities Professionals continues to drive forward its mission expanding access for underrepresented communities in the investment and financial services industry more than 40 years after its founding.

06.19.26
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Advent Director Billy Stewart Loves Convertibles In, Out Of The Office

Billy Stewart seemed destined to serve as a director at Advent Capital Management given that both he and the firm trace their beginnings to convertibles.

06.19.26
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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