Adams Street Partners has hired a director of ESG and responsible investing to develop strategies and solutions that bring further transparency to ESG risks and opportunities within the firm’s portfolios and investments.
Michael Larson is in charge of managing Microsoft Corporation co-founder Bill Gates’ massive fortune for decades. Larson is the chief investment officer for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Michael Larson is in charge of Cascade Investment and was reportedly accused of sexual harassment in 2017.
An imposing figure standing over six feet tall with an authoritative voice, David Swensen had a penchant for forging his own trail, whether it be on his Killingworth, Conn. property or within his philosophy and approach to investing Yale University’s endowment. Swensen, 67, died last week after an almost decade long battle with cancer.
Yale University CIO David Swensen died on May 5 “after a long and courageous battle with cancer,” according to a letter to the university community from President Peter Salovey.
A university in the South has issued an RFP seeking a firm to provide investment consulting services for its retirement and deferred compensation plans.
A university in the Mid-Atlantic region has issued an RFP seeking a firm to provide investment advisory services for its endowment due to the contract expiration of its incumbent provider.
Investment managers must effectively differentiate their brand now more than ever, as institutional investors plan on adding fewer new managers over the next year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent webinar.
CEO Tiffany Donelson and Board Chair Kenneth R. Alleyne took time to participate in a question and answer on the Hartford-based organization’s diversity efforts within its $125 million investment portfolio.