Private Equity
UPDATE: Northeast Pension Issues Private Equity RFP

The plan approved the search at a board meeting yesterday for pacing purposes.

06.26.26
People Moves
Northeast University Names Next CIO

The university has hired the investment head from a Midwestern institution to serve as its cio and oversee its endowment as its current cio transitions to a part-time senior advisory role.

06.26.26
Industry News
Illinois Municipal Seeking Executive Director

The plan’s general counsel has been serving in the role in the interim following Brian Collins’ retirement in April.

06.26.26
Alternatives
Midwest Pension Axes Risk Parity Mgr., Discloses Commitments

The termination comes after the plan reduced its risk parity allocation as part of a new policy approved in April.

06.26.26
Multi-Asset/Investment Advisor
Northeast Town To Issue Investment Management RFP

The town will issue an RFP for investment management services to “see what else is out there” after working with its incumbent since 2014.

06.26.26
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Consultant/OCIO/Discretionary
West Coast Pension Concludes Alternatives Consultant Search

The retirement plan interviewed three consultant finalists for its alternatives portfolio.

06.26.26
Credit/Private Debt
Midwest Pension Approves Private Credit Pacing Plan

The pension fund also reached the range for this year’s pacing plan for the asset class with a recent $50 million commitment.

06.26.26
In The News
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
Yale Endowment, Managing $44 Billion, Eyes Korean Stocks Amid 'Value-Up' Push

Officials from Yale University’s endowment, which manages over 65 trillion won ($44 billion) in assets, are set to visit Korea to discuss investments with domestic asset managers. As expectations for a re-rating of Korean equities grow on the back of the government’s corporate value-up initiative and expanding shareholder returns, even global university endowments are now scouting investment opportunities in the country.

Seoul Economic Daily
President’s Annual “State of the University” Letter 2026: From Growth to Focus

Princeton needs to transition from growth to focus because long-term rates of return are steadily declining across university endowments. This decline has been hard to see because returns have been volatile. In other words, returns have not been a steady 8 percent or 10 percent; instead, they have been all over the map.

Princeton University
RFP: Domestic Small-Cap Equity - Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions
LAFPP seeks at least one new qualified active domestic small cap equity manager for its public
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