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Great Plains Tribe Seeks Investment Advisors
The tribe issued an RFP seeking investment advisors to assist with overseeing, investing and managing its funds, including a settlement fund.
01.20.26
Nutmeg State Pension Issues Private Markets Consultant RFP
The plan is searching for a firm to provide private equity and private credit consulting services.
01.21.26
Mid-Atlantic Pension Names Small-Cap Value Finalists
The plan also terminated a domestic small-cap growth equity manager.
01.21.26
Northeast Pension Concludes Int’l Equity Search
The plan rehired two of its managers and terminated one as it wrapped up its search process at today’s meeting.
01.21.26
Northeast Authority Rehires Investment Advisor
Trust’s board is scheduled to rehire PFM Asset Management as its investment advisor at a meeting this week.
01.21.26
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Principal Asset Mgmt. Names U.S. Data Centers Co-Head
The new hire joins the firm from Sixth Street.
01.21.26
Midwest Pension Launches Infrastructure Search
The pension fund approved an RFP for a single infrastructure platform to handle a mandate target between $250 million and $450 million last week.
01.21.26
In The News
Utah endowment’s OCIO contract raises conflict of interest concerns
Cynosure Capital Management, its new outsourced chief investment officer, is founded by members of one of the state’s richest families.
Commonfund Releases 2025 HEPI Report
Data from the annual Higher Education Price Index® (HEPI) show that inflation for U.S. colleges and universities rose 3.6 percent in fiscal year 2025, surpassing the 3.4 percent inflation reported in fiscal year 2024.
Yale expects layoffs as leaders brace for $300M in endowment taxes
The Ivy League institution’s tax bill starting next year will be higher than what it spends on student aid, university officials said.
The Long Game: Stanford Endowment CEO Robert Wallace on Discipline, Diversification, and Daring Greatly
Wallace reflects on the lessons of rebalancing the portfolio amidst collapsing markets during March 2020, the challenge of scaling alternative strategies at $50 billion, and why the rise of passive investing may paradoxically create opportunities for fundamental investors. He draws on wisdom from his mentor David Swensen’s emphasis on first-principles thinking, the importance of relationships as well as rigorous quantitative work, and the courage required to stand alone when your analysis demands it.