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Midwestern Foundation Names First CIO
The foundation names its first-ever cio to oversee its endowment after its previous investment head left earlier this year to pursue work aligning capital with climate solutions and equitable economies.
11.09.26
New England Receives Private Markets Pacing Plan
The plan will commit a total of $73 million to four asset classes next year.
11.09.26
Southeast DC Plan Hires New LCG Manager
The deferred compensation plan replaced its underperforming domestic large-cap growth equity manager in the second quarter.
11.09.26
Southeast Pension Issues Consultant RFP
The retirement system extended its contract with general investment consultant Raymond James Financial earlier this year.
11.09.26
CalPERS Adds Associate Investment Mgr.
The associate investment manager will serve on the sustainable investments team and joins from a sister retirement system.
11.09.26
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Q3 2026: Core, Core-Plus Real Estate Investment Space Sees Positive Performance, Stable Income
Institutional investors have steadily re-entered the core and core-plus real estate space over the last few quarters, with a long stretch of positive performance among the reasons factoring into the decision to step off the sidelines.
11.09.26
Northeast Pension Taps New Int’l Equity Manager
The retirement system hired a new international equity manager in the third quarter.
11.09.26
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.
