The House Ways and Means Committee approved legislation to amend the current 1.4% excise tax on the net investment income of a higher education institution with a tiered system with a max excise tax equal to the corporate tax rate of 21%.
The asset manager has launched a new service that offers institutional clients the ability to follow a sustainability-focused engagement and proxy voting framework and hired a managing director and head of sustainability stewardship to lead its team.
The foundation is looking to hire a director of corporate investment operations to develop and implement its investment operations framework in partnership with its general investment consultant.
The fund approved a venture capital commitment with an existing manager this month as part of its pacing plan to commit $140 million per year to the asset class.
The university considered a private equity buyout commitment and increasing its investments with two existing global public equity funds by $30 million at this week’s meeting.