5 Questions
5 Questions With Fiduciary Trust Company CIO Frank Brochin

Frank Brochin recently joined Boston-based as cio of private wealth manager Fiduciary Trust Company, leading the investment department, overseeing investment strategy, strengthening its investment platform on behalf of clients and helping expand investment capabilities. Brochin took the time to answer 5 Questions with FIN News.

06.29.26
People Moves
DART Pension Manager Retires

The organization’s replacement has not yet been determined.

06.29.26
Consultant/OCIO/Discretionary
Rocky Mountain DC Plans Rehire Consultant

The plans have worked with incumbent Innovest Portfolio Solutions since 1999.

06.29.26
Small-Cap
Texas Pension Finalizes Small-Cap Value Hires

The plan’s investment committee previously narrowed a search to two recommended hires following finalist interviews held earlier this month.

06.29.26
Administrator - Bundled
Pacific Northwest 457 Plan Seeking Admin. Services

The plan is seeking record keeping, education, communications and investment-related services.

06.29.26
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Large-Cap
New England Pension To Begin Large-Cap Value Equity Search

The retirement system approved the search at last week’s board meeting due to an upcoming contract expiration.

06.29.26
People Moves
Northeast University Names Next CIO

The university has hired the investment head from a Midwestern institution to serve as its cio and oversee its endowment as its current cio transitions to a part-time senior advisory role.

06.26.26
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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