5 Questions
5 Questions With Mariner Institutional MD Troy Brown

Troy Brown is a managing director at Mariner Institutional, where he is responsible for ensuring department functions, directives, structure, staff, and policies and procedures. He took the time to answer 5 Questions, plus a bonus one, with FIN News.

07.20.26
Consultant/OCIO/Discretionary
West Coast Pension Issues Investment Consultant RFP

The pension plan has been with its current consultant for over 10 years.

07.20.26
Industry News
GoldenTree Closes Second Private Credit Fund

GoldenTree Asset Management closed its second private credit fund at its hard cap of $2.75 billion.

07.20.26
Administrator - Bundled
Texas Utilities Plan Posts TPA RFP

The utilities board has worked with the incumbent provider since 2019.

07.20.26
Consultant/OCIO/Discretionary
Midwest Pension Launches Consultant Search

The pension plan has issued an RFP seeking a general investment consultant.

07.20.26
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People Moves
Cohen & Steers Names Chief Marketing Officer

The new chief marketing officer joined the firm from American Century Investments.

07.20.26
Private Equity
Southern Police Pension Adds PE Commitments

The plan made four private equity commitments with existing managers this week.

07.17.26
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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