International / Global / Emerging Markets
West Coast Pension Seeking Emerging Markets Growth Equity Mgr.

The new manager will handle a mandate of up to $250 million.

10.08.26
Against Consensus
Against Consensus Podcast: Chicago Teachers Trustee Vicki Kurzydlo On How Not To Pitch To The Board

In this episode of Against Consensus, host Angelo Calvello sits down with Public School Teachers’ Pension & Retirement Fund of Chicago Trustee Vicki Kurzydlo to tell you how not to pitch to the pension fund’s board.

10.13.26
Alternatives
West Coast Pension Receives RE, Private Equity Pacing Studies

The retirement association will also consider rehiring its general investment consultant this week.

10.13.26
Large-Cap
Southeast Pension Concludes Large-Cap Value Search

The retirement system also terminated its domestic large-cap growth equity manager in the third quarter.

10.13.26
Multi-Asset/Investment Advisor
Midwest County Posts Investment Advisor RFP

The county last issued an RFP for the services in 2021.

10.13.26
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Consultant/OCIO/Discretionary
West Coast Pension To Issue Investment Consultant RFP

The retirement system last conducted a similar search in 2016.

10.13.26
Private Equity
Texas Pension Re-Ups with Private Equity Firm

The retirement system finalized a new commitment in the firm’s 11th fund in the series.

10.13.26
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.

Harvard Crimson
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.’

Wall Street Journal
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
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