Fixed-Income
Southern Plan Conducting Core Fixed-Income Search

The plan is conducting a replacement search after terminating its incumbent core fixed-income manager today.

10.28.26
Small-Cap
New England Plan Concludes Small-Cap Equity Search

The plan made two hires in its small-cap core equity manager search last quarter.

10.28.26
Credit/Private Debt
Virginia Pension Sets Private Debt Pacing

The retirement system also liquidated its domestic small- to mid-cap value equity mandate last month.

10.28.26
Industry News
BPEA Rebrands As Brooke Private Equity

The name reflects the legacy of its co-founder, who also founded two firms that helped shape the private equity industry.

10.28.26
People Moves
West Coast Plan Begins CIO Search

The plan is seeking a successor to its cio who retired over the summer.

10.28.26
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Against Consensus
Against Consensus Podcast: Tokenization Is Coming; Why Asset Owners Need a Seat

In this episode of Against Consensus, host Angelo Calvello sits down with Liz Pfeuti, publishing director of Rhotic Media and Capital Pioneer to discuss how tokenization and digital assets are reshaping capital market infrastructure.

10.28.26
Alternatives
Southwest Plan Makes Private Markets Commitments

The plan made six commitments totaling more than $900 million.

10.27.26
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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