Domestic Equity
New England Pension Seeking U.S. Small-Cap, Mid-Cap Equity Mgrs.

The retirement system has issued three domestic equity manager RFPs.

07.23.26
Consultant/OCIO/Discretionary
Western DC Plans Post Consultant RFP

A Western deferred compensation plan has issued an RFP seeking an investment consultant.

07.23.26
People Moves
Boyd Watterson Names Global Chief Client Officer

The newly created role includes overseeing global sales, client engagement and marketing across the U.S., Europe and APAC.

07.23.26
Industry News
LLCP Raises $2B For Lower Middle Market Fund

LLCP Lower Middle Market IV closes with $2 billion in total capital commitments, surpassing its $1.7 billion target and closing at its hard cap.

07.23.26
Domestic Equity
Southeast Pension Shakes Up Domestic Equity Portfolio

The retirement system replaced three underperforming domestic equity managers in the fourth quarter.

07.23.26
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Private Equity
Francisco Partners Closes Two PE Funds

The combined closings bring Francisco Partners’ total capital raised to more than $75 billion.

07.23.26
Multi-Asset/Investment Advisor
Southeast Pension Taps New Investment Mgr.

The plan had worked with its incumbent investment manager since 2022.

07.23.26
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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