The firm has hired a head of investor relations to lead all aspects of its business development and investor relations strategy for its new, existing and prospective limited partners.
The senior v.p. for finance leads the university’s finance department and joined the institution this month after six years at another southern university.
The fund has received an $100 million unrestricted grant to support its capital campaign and will deploy it by building a pooled endowment fund that will increase member institutions endowments by $10 million each.
The university has hired a discretionary investment consultant after conducting an invitation-only RFP process that began in the second quarter of 2023.
The firm’s latest fund targeting value-added investments in hotels across the U.S. was oversubscribed after receiving commitments from endowments, foundations, public and corporate pension plans, insurance companies and wealth management firms.