5 Questions
5 Questions With Mariner Institutional MD Troy Brown

Troy Brown is a managing director at Mariner Institutional, where he is responsible for ensuring department functions, directives, structure, staff, and policies and procedures. He took the time to answer 5 Questions, plus a bonus one, with FIN News.

07.20.26
People Moves
Wealth Manager Hires CIO

The firm is looking to build out its investment solutions and multi-asset class portfolios.

07.21.26
People Moves
Cinctive Adds Portfolio Managers; Announces New Office

The firm will open a new office in West Palm Beach, Fla. on Aug. 1.

07.21.26
Large-Cap
Northeast City Conducting Large-Cap Mgr. Search

The retirement fund is conducting the search due to underperformance from its incumbent domestic large-cap value equity manager.

07.21.26
Industry News
Texas Pension Seeking Deputy CIO

The role has been vacant following the promotion of the former deputy to cio last year.

07.21.26
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Hedge Funds
Rocky Mountain Pension Terminates Hedge Fund Mgr.

The retirement plan terminated a global macro hedge fund manager in the first quarter.

07.21.26
Private Equity
Michigan Pension Makes PE Secondaries Commitment

The retirement system committed to the next fund in a series after its last commitment to the manager in 2022.

07.21.26
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
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