Real Assets
A West Coast-based university will look to commit $1.5 billion in private investments this year.
A university in the Midwest is seeking investments in illiquid asset classes.
A Midwestern health care plan will interview global infrastructure, value-add real estate and volatility risk premium manager finalists at next month’s investment committee meeting.
A Northeast pension fund is searching for a manager to handle a blended timber and farmland mandate.
A Midwestern pension plan has approved tactical pacing plans for its private markets, real estate and real assets portfolios.
A Southwestern pension plan has begun its searches for global listed infrastructure and value-add real estate managers.
A Southern university hired a new public real assets manager in the second quarter of 2019.
A Florida firefighters pension plan hired its first infrastructure manager at a meeting today.
A Midwestern pension plan will conduct searches for private equity and infrastructure managers as part of pacing plans approved at yesterday’s board meeting.
The assumption that divestment can hurt the total return of an endowment is based on speculation, according to CJ Ryan, co-author of a recent research paper that found no discernible evidence that divestment of fossil fuels can negatively impact the total return of an endowment’s portfolio.