People Moves
Mid-Atlantic Trust Lead Departs To Launch Advisory Firm

The trust’s ceo and cio recently left the organization after more than three years of service to launch their own investment advisory and outsourced cio firm.

07.22.26
People Moves
Brightstar Capital Partners Adds Managing Director

The firm brought on a new managing director from Clearlake Capital Group.

07.22.26
Asset Study/Review
Midwest Association Revises Target A/A

The nonprofit association revised its target asset allocation in the second quarter, moving its portfolio toward fixed-income at the expense of public equities and real assets.

07.22.26
People Moves
Director Departs Southwest University For Health System

The director recently left the institution after more than three years of service to join a nearby health system in a similar role, tasked with overseeing its portfolio.

07.22.26
People Moves
Venture Manager Adds Operating Partner, Investment Partner, Associate

The firm has added an operating partner to its council while hiring an investment partner and associate.

07.22.26
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People Moves
West Coast Foundation Eyes Investment Analyst

The foundation is searching for an investment analyst to join its three-year analyst program, which is structured as a generalist model.

07.22.26
People Moves
Midwest Treasurer Seeks Director For 529, Other Savings Plans

The state treasurer is looking to fill a newly created director of investments position overseeing college savings and other savings programs in the state.

07.22.26
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.

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