Credit/Private Debt
Midwest Pension To Launch Private Credit Mgr. Search

The plan also approved a maiden infrastructure manager hire at today’s board meeting.

07.31.26
Consultant/OCIO/Discretionary
West Coast DC Plans Seeking Investment Consultant

The county last conducted a similar search in 2022.

08.03.26
Private Equity
Adams Street Secures $5B For Secondaries Program

The fundraise includes the successful close of Global Secondary Fund 8.

08.03.26
Credit/Private Debt
Midwest Pension Posts Credit Manage RFP

The pension fund approved the search at last week’s board meeting.

08.03.26
Alternatives
Northeast State Plan Receives PE, Private Credit Pacing Plans

The retirement system also disclosed several private markets commitments.

08.03.26
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Industry News
MetLife Raises $1.2B For Third PE Fund

The third fund was closed through a managed transaction.

08.03.26
Multi-Asset/Investment Advisor
West Coast Authority Hires Investment Mgr.

The authority recently completed the first phase of a project and needs to invest and manage approximately $35 million in funding.

08.03.26
In The News
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
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
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