Real Estate
Northeast Pensions Begin Real Estate Searches

The retirement systems are looking for non-core real estate managers to handle a total of $43 million.

11.02.26
Administrator - Bundled
Texas District Posts Retirement Plan Services RFP

The district issued a similar RFP for the services in 2021.

11.02.26
Multi-Asset/Investment Advisor
West Coast City Rehires Investment Advisor

The city opted to retain its incumbent investment advisor to provide services for its managed investment portfolio currently valued at $430 million.

11.02.26
Industry News
TD Unifies Asset Management Businesses

Epoch Investment Partners will also change its name as part of the unification.

11.02.26
Daily Feed
Northeast State Pension Makes Equity Hires

The retirement system also committed more than $1.5 billion to private markets.

11.02.26
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People Moves
ORIX USA Names Americas Capital Formation Head

The new hire will serve on ORIX Corporation USA’s capital formation and investor relations leadership team.

11.02.26
Fixed-Income
Northwest Authority Issues Fixed-Income Manager RFP

The authority currently has core fixed-income mandates with Alaska Permanent Capital Management and Barrow Hanley Global Investors.

11.02.26
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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