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New England Pension Launches Emerging Manager Program RFI
The retirement system is conducting the search to “assess the feasibility” of establishing a private markets emerging manager program.
10.20.26
Ara Partners Raises $2.5B For Energy Fund
The firm has raised $2.5 billion for its inaugural energy fund.
10.20.26
Southeast Pension Eyes New Small-Cap Value Mgr.
The plan will vote on hiring a new domestic small-cap value equity manager at its board meeting later this week.
10.20.26
King Street Bolsters Investor Relations Team
The firm’s newest managing director recently held the head of investor relations role at VWH Capital Management.
10.20.26
Mid-Atlantic Pension Seeking Investment Portfolio Manager
The position will be responsible for quantitative and qualitative research on prospect managers and strategies.
10.20.26
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Malden Hires New Investment Manager
The retirement board hired a new manager to handle its entire portfolio after issuing an RFP last year.
10.20.26
Florida Pension Makes Small-Cap Changes
The pension fund terminated two active managers and moved the nearly $45 million in assets to a passive index.
10.20.26
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.
