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.
The university has incorporated an investment policy prohibiting proxy votes based on ESG-like considerations and slightly adjusted a hedge fund portfolio after completing an asset allocation study.
The university is closing on its goal of allocating 2.5% of its endowment to climate solution investments after creating the target in 2022 as part of broader goals to achieve a net-zero carbon emissions endowment.
The university approved a recommendation from its general investment consultant to add global equity managers in alignment with its fossil fuel divestment policy.
The school will consider divesting its approximately $465 million endowment from companies and industries identified by its Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility that are implicated in military and police violence in Gaza and the West Bank in the coming weeks.
The university will consider adding global equity strategies with two firms within its portfolio to eliminate fossil fuel exposures within the portfolio’s equity allocations.