Against Consensus
Against Consensus Podcast: Anurag Chandra Of San Jose Federated Joins

San Jose Federated City Employees Retirement System Investment Committee Chair Anurag Chandra joins host Angelo Calvello, Ph.D. to discuss the three-ring fiduciary framework his board built to govern AI adoption, treating AI as “a brilliant analyst who’s never allowed to vote.”

07.09.26
Alternatives
Northeast Pension Approves Private Markets Commitments

The pension plan also redeemed an alternatives manager at a board meeting today.

07.09.26
Multi-Asset/Investment Advisor
Midwest Treasurer Seeking Investment Mgmt., Consulting Services

The Midwest state’s $15.1 billion treasurer’s office is seeking investment management and consulting services.

07.09.26
Administrator/Record Keeper
West Coast Deferred Comp Plan Retains TPA

The plan interviewed two finalists in its third-party administrator search.

07.09.26
Multi-Asset/Investment Advisor
West Coast City Posts Investment Advisor RFP

City is seeking a firm to manage part of its $67.2 million investment portfolio.

07.09.26
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Fixed-Income
Midwest Board Considering Core-Plus Bond Investment

The board will weigh adding a core-plus fixed-income strategy with a new manager within its portfolio as it looks to shift to active from passive management and increase its risk profile.

07.09.26
People Moves
Northeast University Adds Eight Board Members, Including Three Investors

The university has named eight members to its board of trustees, including three investment professionals, effective July 1.

07.08.26
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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