Against Consensus
Against Consensus Podcast: Subhasis Das Of Florida SBA On What Really Drives Long-Term Manager Success

On this episode of Against Consensus, host Angelo Calvello, PhD, sits down with Subhasis Das, senior portfolio manager in Strategic Investments at the Florida State Board of Administration.

07.28.26
Fixed-Income
Midwest Plan Picks Up Core-Plus Bond RFP Discussions

The plan will review a draft of an RFP expected to be issued in late August.

07.28.26
People Moves
Atlanta Capital Bolsters Distribution Team

The firm added an executive director to its distribution and client services team this month.

07.28.26
Alternatives
Northeast Pension Approves Credit, PE Commitments

The pension fund will also receive presentations from a pair of infrastructure managers and a credit manager for potential commitments in September.

07.28.26
Bank Loan
West Coast Plan Hires Maiden Bank Loan Mgr.

The plan is also expected to hire high-yield and investment grade bond managers later this year.

07.28.26
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Alternatives
Texas Pension Adds Private Markets Funds

The plan approved commitments totaling $160 million across four funds in April and May.

07.28.26
Industry News
From Access to Understanding: Building Capability In Private Markets

Private markets practitioners have built an array of products that give a broader range of investors access to private assets. The next step is to make sure those products are understood, implemented, and governed by and for the entire investment ecosystem, says Adele Kohler, managing director of the Americas for the CAIA Association.

07.28.26
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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