Historically black colleges and universities are reeling, like many other higher education institutions, from the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on their business models.
Despite these struggles, institutions cannot and should not let those issues stand in the way of growing their endowment portfolios and diversifying them to combat the underrepresentation of diverse-owned investment managers in the approximately $70 trillion asset management industry, allocators and industry experts said.
A coalition of Canadian university endowments and pension plans has announced a new initiative to engage corporations on climate change to reduce climate-related risks in their investment portfolios.
A plan in the South will conduct a search to replace a domestic small-cap value equity manager and may receive replacement options as soon as its next meeting in May.
A university in the South is searching for an investment manager for private investments to be involved in all aspects of investment and manager research for the institution’s endowment.
The former deputy cio of a university in the South has joined a Northeast-based alternatives investment manager that invests in credit, private equity and real estate.