Credit/Private Debt
Midwest Pension To Launch Private Credit Mgr. Search

The plan also approved a maiden infrastructure manager hire at today’s board meeting.

07.31.26
People Moves
Southern State Pension Names Next Executive Director

The plan named its next executive director from within its executive staff.

07.31.26
Private Equity
New England Pension Names Private Equity Mgr. Finalists

The plan will interview five firms in its middle market buyout search.

07.31.26
Industry News
Southwest Pension Seeking Senior PM

The position will help oversee the retirement system’s more than $3.5 billion diversifying and fixed-income portfolio.

07.31.26
Industry News
Western Pension Begins Deputy CIO Search

The plan’s former deputy cio recently moved into the cio seat.

07.31.26
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People Moves
Intercontinental Real Estate Taps COO

Sean Ruhmann has joined Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation as coo, with the expectation of growing into the president role over time.

07.31.26
Real Assets
Mid-Atlantic OPEB Trust Adds Listed Real Assets Managers

The trust recently hired managers to fill its maiden targets to listed infrastructure and listed REITs.

07.31.26
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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