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Prime Buchholz Consulting Director Departs To Serve As Marsh E&F Segment Leader
Prime Buchholz Principal and Director of Consulting Steve Nelson recently left the firm to join investment consulting firm Marsh Investments and Retirement as its U.S. endowment and foundation segment leader to wrap up a search from earlier this year.
10.16.26
Mid-Atlantic Pension Taps Private Markets Commitments
The retirement system also opted against action following an equity structure review last month.
10.19.26
Texas Pension Adds Real Estate Commitments
The pension fund committed $24 million across new real estate manager relationships last month.
10.19.26
West Coast Pension Places Global Equity Mgrs. On Watch
The two managers were placed on watch last quarter for performance reasons.
10.19.26
Blackstone Closes Fifth Energy Transition Fund
The fund is more than 50% larger than its predecessor vehicle.
10.19.26
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Southern Pension Hires New LCV Managers
The plan hired two of five firms interviewed for the mandate last week.
10.19.26
Midwest Plans Adopt New Asset Allocation
The plans adopted the new asset allocation following an asset study by their general investment consultant.
10.16.26
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.
