5 Questions
5 Question With Northern Trust Asset Management Head Of Multi-Asset Custom Solutions Deepika Sharma

Deepika Sharma has served as head of multi-asset custom solutions at Northern Trust Asset Management since joining in August from BlackRock. She took the time to answer five questions with FIN News.

06.22.26
Credit/Private Debt
Northeast Pension Issues Private Credit RFP

The retirement system is looking to invest in the asset class for the first time.

06.22.26
People Moves
T. Rowe Price Enhances U.S. Institutional Biz

The firm’s new client support model is designed to better serve clients, foster deeper partnerships and drive long-term growth.

06.22.26
Credit/Private Debt
West Coast Pension Makes Private Credit Commitments

The plan interviewed a total of six strategies last week.

06.22.26
Multi-Asset/Investment Advisor
Midwest City Retains Investment Advisor

The city received three proposals in response to an RFP issued in April.

06.22.26
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Large-Cap
Southern Pension Posts Large-Cap Value Manager RFP

The search is due to performance concerns with the retirement system’s two incumbent large-cap value managers.

06.22.26
People Moves
Segal Marco Public Fund Consulting Director To Retire

Jeffrey Boucek, senior v.p. at investment consultant Segal Marco Advisors, will retire next month.

06.22.26
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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