Industry News
Integrated Capital Advisors Meets Nonprofits’ Growing Demand For Fractional CIOs

A new fractional cio firm, started by a former managing director of investments at a West Coast nonprofit, provides small and mid-sized nonprofits with a flexible consultancy model to build and institutionalize their investment management capacities.

07.29.26
Non-U.S. & Global Equity
Texas Pension Launches Global Equity RFQ

The RFQ process follows a similar one launched in January for domestic small-cap equity managers.

07.30.26
People Moves
Xponance Alts Adds PE Associate

The associate will support the firm’s private markets investment platform.

07.30.26
Real Estate
Northeast Pension Bolsters Real Estate Portfolio

The pension plan’s deputy cio will also retire next month after a decade in the role.

07.30.26
Private Equity
Pantheon Raises Latest Co-Investment Program

The firm has closed its largest co-investment program to date.

07.30.26
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Consultant/OCIO/Discretionary
Ill. Village Deferred Comp Plans Seeking Consultant

The selected consultant will assist in conducting an RFP to consolidate its plan service providers to one, among other responsibilities.

07.30.26
Small-Cap
Southern Pension Hires Small-Cap Managers

The plan began a replacement search for a domestic mid-cap equity manager terminated last quarter.

07.30.26
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
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