5 Questions
5 Questions With Just Futures CEO Mika Weinstein

Weinstein heads Just Futures, an investment firm incorporated as a public benefit corporation that works with nonprofits to align their retirement, reserve or endowment assets with their missions. She took the time to answer 5 Questions with FIN News.

07.13.26
International / Global / Emerging Markets
Northeast Pension Hires Non-U.S. Equity Mgrs.

The plan’s investment consultant recommended hiring specialized managers for its non-U.S. equity portfolio.

07.13.26
Private Equity
West Coast Pension Discloses PE Commitments

The pension plan disclosed up to $170 million in private equity commitments made last month.

07.13.26
Industry News
Comvest Private Equity Rebrands

Comvest Private Equity has rebranded as Vesterra Capital Partners.

07.13.26
Consultant/OCIO/Discretionary
Calif. City Approves General Investment Consultant RFP

The retirement system also made three commitments at its investment committee meeting last week.

07.13.26
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Industry News
Warren Equity Raises $2.8B For Fund V

Warren Equity Partners has closed its fifth private equity fund with $2.8 billion in total capital commitments.

07.13.26
People Moves
Nuveen Adds Americas Inst’l Distribution Head

Geremy Kawaller has been appointed head of Americas institutional distribution at the global investment manager.

07.13.26
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.

Princeton University
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