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University of Iowa sued by its corporate partner in billion-dollar utility deal

Just three years into a 50-year, billion-dollar partnership with a utility company, the University of Iowa is being sued over an alleged failure to abide by the terms of the deal.

01.30.23
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Boston College Has A Responsibility To Make Its Investment Portfolio More Transparent

Boston College’s profile of its $3.7 billion endowment is short, vague, and far from informative. The University has a moral responsibility to change this.

01.30.23
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Blackstone's $4 Billion California Deal Riles University Unions

Unions representing 110,000 University of California workers demanded that the system divest holdings from Blackstone Inc., including a recent $4 billion investment with its massive real estate trust.

01.17.23
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Blackstone Trust Becomes A Test Of The Retail Investing Trend

A turbulent market has highlighted just how difficult it is to provide retail investors access to illiquid investments like real estate and other private assets.

01.05.23
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At Year’s End, Several Colleges Face A Financial Reckoning

As 2022 draws to its close, several colleges – both public and private – are coming to terms with a grim financial future that has caused them either to announce their upcoming closure or warn that they face impending peril.

12.21.22
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Meet Peng Wang, GHF’s New Chief Investment Officer

In a different set of circumstances, Peng Wang might have become a physicist rather than Group Health Foundation’s new chief investment officer.

12.19.22
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Missing from Harvard’s Annual Endowment Report This Year: Underlying Data

In 2016, Harvard had bad news to share in its annual financial report: Its endowment value had dropped nearly $2 billion. The report, released that November, detailed the endowment’s lackluster returns by disclosing how the Harvard Management Company performed in a variety of asset categories against internal and external benchmarks.

11.10.22
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Why Johns Hopkins University's Endowment Declined By $1 Billion

Johns Hopkins University’s endowment woes are not unusual. Endowments across the country lost a median 10.2% of their value, according to a national study.

10.26.22
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Z2 Investment Management Brings Flexible Capital To The Lower Middle Market

Z2 will make direct investments in mostly private companies with a targeted investment size between $10 million and $100 million per company.

10.24.22
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ESG Adoption Slow Among DC Plans

One factor hindering ESG’s adoption is the lack of ESG-focused target-date funds, though several firms are starting to introduce them.

10.21.22