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Southern University Reissues Investment Management RFP
The university has reissued an RFP seeking a firm to provide investment management services as well as review its investment policy and asset allocation after launching a search in the first quarter.
08.05.26
Midwest Religious Order Seeks Director For Mission-Aligned Fund
The religious group is searching for a director to manage its fund targeting investments with social and environmental impacts as its current mission-aligned investment pool head is set to retire after more than decade of service.
08.05.26
Midwest University Issues Advisory RFP
A university based in the Midwest has launched a search for an investment advisor for its defined contribution plans.
08.05.26
Southern Foundation Revises A/A, Updates Real Assets Manager Allocations
The organization revised the asset allocation for its Balanced Pooled Fund in the fourth quarter, removing its diversifying strategies allocations to increase real estate and real assets.
08.05.26
Investment Manager Closes PE Fund At Hard Cap
The firm recently held the final close for its fifth private equity fund in an oversubscribed fundraise.
08.05.26
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Midwest State Retains Sustainability Investment Consultant
The state treasurer’s office retained its incumbent sustainability-focused investment consultant following a search from earlier this year as the incumbent had reached its statutory 10-year maximum term.
08.05.26
Southern Foundation Seeks Next CEO
The foundation is looking to hire a new president and ceo as its current head is leaving to join a mid-Atlantic community development financial institution as president and ceo.
08.05.26
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.’
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.
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.
