Multi-Asset/Investment Advisor
Southern College Issues Investment Advisory RFP

The college is searching for financial advisors, fund managers and brokerage providers to provide investment advisory and investment management services.

06.18.26
Hedge Funds
Southwest Pension Axes HF Manager; Makes Commitments

The plan disclosed recent activities from its investment committee meeting this month.

06.18.26
Alternatives
Pacific Northwest Pension Approves New Commitments

The pension fund’s board approved up to $550 million across two commitments at a meeting today.

06.18.26
People Moves
Ares Appoints Infrastructure Debt Head

Brent Canada has been appointed head of infrastructure debt at Ares Management.

06.18.26
Multi-Asset/Investment Advisor
Northeast Pension Plans Hire New Investment Advisor

A Northeast township hired a new firm to provide services related to its police and non-uniform pension plans this week.

06.18.26
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Passive Equity
Midwest Pension Launches Int’l Index, Consultant RFPs

The retirement fund was scheduled to review its international equity portfolio and a consultant RFP at this week’s board meeting.

06.18.26
Surveys/Studies
Institutional Investors Utilizing Active Management To Reduce Portfolio Risk: Schroders

North American institutional investors are expressing strong confidence in active management and taking a holistic approach to portfolio construction to combat market uncertainty, according to a new survey.

06.18.26
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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