Corporate Moves
Ellen Ellison, University of Illinois Foundation CIO, Steps Down
The allocator shared on social media that she will be leaving to pursue other endowment and investment-related activities.
Tag: Endowments
How Allocators Are Honing Asset Strategies, Amid a Problematical Future
Many institutional investors have positioned their funds to generate returns, while others are girding for further volatility.
PE Fund CEO Charged With Lying to Secure $95 Million Loan
Elliot Smerling could face more than 60 years in prison for wire fraud, bank fraud, and identity theft.
Corporate Moves
Richard Chau Named Tulane CIO
Interim CIO permanently replaces Jeremy Crigler, who left in September after 12 years at the helm.
Asset Management Culture
University of Chicago CIO Mark Schmid to Retire in September
The endowment’s assets doubled under the CIO Lifetime Achievement Award winner’s guidance.
Asset Management Culture
David Swensen, Yale’s Iconic Endowment Chief, Dies at 67
He pioneered the push into alternative assets, now popular among institutional investors.
Asset Management Culture
Utah Endowment Considers Realignment Toward Sustainability
University’s Academic Senate approves recommendations to shift portfolio to ‘positive sustainability investments.’
Newsmakers
How the Soros Connection Has Small Bard College Aiming for the $1 Billion Endowment Club
The famed financier has a special Holocaust-related bond with the school’s president. Result: Now there’s a shift from the old method that barely kept the junk-rated institution afloat.
Asset Management Culture
Tufts Names Craig Smith as Next CIO
The investing veteran has been interim chief since Sally Dungan’s death a year ago.
Tactical Shifts: How Institutional Investors Are Adjusting Asset Mixes Now
Private credit, real estate, emerging markets. Here are the ways CIOs at HOOPP, the James Irvine Foundation, and two others are solving the allocation puzzle.
Asset Management Culture
University of Pennsylvania Targets Net-Zero by 2050
The $14.9 billion endowment becomes the latest institutional investor to target the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Asset Management Culture
Bard Is Driving Toward a $1 Billion Endowment with Soros Donation
The college must match the philanthropist’s $500 million donation within five years, and it’s already halfway there.
Asset Allocation
University of Michigan Pledges to Become Net-Zero by 2050
The $12.5 billion endowment’s portfolio will immediately shift to sustainable assets and shun fossil fuels.
Asset Management Culture
Rockefeller University Names Paula Volent New CIO
She joins the biomedical research institution from Bowdoin College and succeeds CIO Amy Falls, who’s moving to Northwestern.
Endowments Embrace Net-Zero Portfolios: Is It the Future of Investment Management?
Questions remain about how to measure risks and what a proper framework looks like, but more colleges and universities are taking the plunge.