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Marsh Acquires Wilshire
Marsh is acquiring Wilshire in a major acquisition that expands Marsh’s offering to institutional investors across public and corporate retirement plans, endowments and foundations.
11.10.26
Social Finance, Prominent Foundations Team Up On Journalism Impact Fund
Two large foundations have provided anchor investments in a new local journalism fund managed by a social impact registered investment advisory firm.
11.10.26
Southern System Wraps Up Consultant Search For Retirement Plans
The institution approved hiring a firm to provide investment consulting and monitoring services for its retirement and deferred compensation plans following a search from this summer.
11.10.26
New England College Eyes Investment Analyst
The role will assist with investment analysis as well as due diligence of current and prospective investment managers.
11.10.26
UNCF Expands Investment Education To HBCUs Through Partnership W/ Investment Advisor
The mid-Atlantic fund has partnered with an institutional investment advisor and outsourced cio to expand educational access to professional investment reporting and analytics to Historically Black college and university students.
11.10.26
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Southern Fund Seeks Senior Analysts
The fund is searching for senior investment analysts focused on absolute return strategies, equities, public credit, private credit and co-investments.
11.10.26
West Coast College Creates Maiden Real Assets Allocation
The maiden allocation to real assets as part of broad asset allocation changes.
11.10.26
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.
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.’
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.
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.
