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Texas Teachers CIO To Retire
The retirement system will undertake a nationwide search for a successor.
09.22.26
Northeast University Names New CIO As Investment Head Departs
The university is promoting two senior investment team members to lead oversight and management of its endowment as its investment head is leaving after more than a decade of service to take over as the inaugural cio for a fund on the West Coast.
09.22.26
Southwest Pension Hires Four Small-Cap Equity Managers
The plan also terminated three equity mandates as part of a domestic equity portfolio restructuring.
09.22.26
West Coast Pension Appoints Associate Investment Officer
The officer will serve as a generalist focusing on primary and direct investments.
09.22.26
Academy Asset Mgmt. Taps Client PM
Nate Neibauer has joined Academy Asset Management as a client portfolio manager.
09.22.26
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Texas Pension Adds Private Equity Director
The retirement system launched a search for the new position in the first quarter.
09.22.26
Northeast Pension Approves Credit, Real Assets Commitments
The plan approved credit and real assets commitments at today’s board meeting and will consider a private equity commitment next month.
09.22.26
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.
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.’
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.
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.
