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The university has formed an ad hoc committee to review a petition to divest its endowment from companies financially benefiting from the Israel-Hamas war.
A foundation based in the Midwest allocated to an emerging markets equity strategy with a focus on sustainability last year.
The college decided against student and faculty proposals to divest its endowment from companies supplying military equipment used by Israel in the current campaign in Gaza.
The college is closing its internal investment office and transitioning the management of its endowment to an outsourced cio provider on Sept. 1.
The university has postponed its consideration of divesting its endowment from companies and industries that are implicated in military and police violence in Gaza and the West Bank.
The firm has hired a global head of sustainability to support portfolio companies across its platform with a range of sustainability-focused projects and value-creation initiatives.
The agency selected a West Coast-based nonprofit to build and implement a green energy fund following an RFP process from the start of the year.
The college’s board of trustees decided against a proposal to divest from companies that sell weapons or materiel to the Israel Defense Forces following months of educations and deliberation from an advisory committee.
The platform, which focuses on philanthropy and investments impacting the oceans, food and agriculture and energy, has hired its inaugural head of investment stewardship from a large asset manager.
The university has begun the process of reviewing a resolution that would limit basing investment decisions on political and social events unrelated to the university in response to campus pressure to divest from companies involved with the Hamas-Israel armed conflict.