Hedge Funds
The plan may look at long/short hedge fund opportunities due to performance concerns with its incumbent long/short manager.
The plan approved a core-plus fixed-income manager search and terminated its hedge fund-of-funds mandate as the result of a new asset allocation policy.
The redemption follows the death of the firm’s founder and cio last month.
The plan disclosed $668 million in total commitments with one new manager and twelve existing managers in the fiscal second quarter.
The plan made several commitments to private markets funds last week.
The institution will come back with a recommendation on how to redeploy the assets from recently terminated public equity and hedge fund managers at a future meeting.
The endowment recently made a new private equity commitment with a buyout strategy focused on the technology, healthcare consumer services and retail, financial services and information, content and business services sectors.
The board will consider hiring a new public markets consultant later this month.
The plan recently hired four hedge fund managers as part of its transition to a direct investment model.
The university added a private equity commitment and a hedge fund investment with new firms in the second quarter.