Harvard May Lose 'Richest U.S. College' Title To Oil-Rich University Of Texas
The Texas university system is unlike other colleges because of its oil-rich land that’s driving record revenue this year. Every day, the University of Texas System makes about $6 million off a mineral-rich swath of land it manages in the U.S.’s largest oil field.
KU Endowment Selects Next President
Dan Martin is the next president of KU Endowment. KU Endowment Board of Trustees Chair Dave Dillon introduced Martin at a meeting with staff earlier this month. Martin currently serves as the chief philanthropy officer at the Texas division of St. Luke’s Health and has extensive experience in higher education leadership and fundraising.
TRS of Texas #1 Program Is Finding And Retaining Best Talent For Best Returns | Mike Lazorik, Director of Principal Investments | Q&A
Mike Lazorik is a director of principal investments in private equity, growth, and venture capital at the Teacher Retirement System of Texas. In this interview, he discussed how the world will continue to evolve with tech disruption and innovation; why he prefers to engage with unique managers who are spreading their wings to manage more products and strategies; and why it will be difficult for investors to deliver without broad exposure to Asia moving forward.
U.S. Pension Fund Aims $400M At PE Deals
The Texas Municipal Retirement System is making a big push into private equity co-investments after voting to double its private equity investment pace earlier this year. The Austin-based pension system manages $29.9B in pension assets for city employees across Texas.
Texas Teacher Pension Fund Trims Private Equity Investment Plans
One of the largest Texas pension plans is dialling back the amount of capital it will commit to private equity funds this year even as it continues to emphasise direct investing in the asset class to lower costs.
U.S. Investigating University Of Texas Links To Chinese Lab
The Department of Education has launched an investigation into links between the University of Texas and a Chinese laboratory that has been scrutinized over the coronavirus pandemic.
Climate Change Is Starting To Influence Wall Street
A new piece of research conducted at the University of Texas at Austin finds that climate change beliefs are starting to seriously influence the financial decisions being made by some of Wall Street’s most prominent investors.
Teacher Retirement System of Texas On Being 'A Top-Performing Institutional Investor' | Will Carpenter, Senior Portfolio Manager | Q&A
Will Carpenter is a senior portfolio manager for private equity principal investments with the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, where he leads deal teams in investment due diligence, valuation and ongoing portfolio management for private equity co-investments. In this interview, he discusses his experience moving back to Texas to serve that constituency after spending years in New York City, the positive impact that veteran investor Britt Harris had on TRS and the organization's next steps in being a top-performing institutional investor.
UTIMCO’s Strategy For 'Being Among The Best Endowments' | Britt Harris, CEO & CIO | Exclusive Q&A
Britt Harris is the president, chief executive officer and chief investment officer at The University of Texas/Texas A&M Investment Management Company (UTIMCO). In this interview, he discusses the endowment's in-depth strategy in remaining as one of the best in the U.S.; his goal in molding 500 plus investment leaders (called Titans); and how human judgment and machine learning are complementary
to each other in the investment process.
Texas Offers A Broad Range Of RE Investment Opportunities
Texas might as well be called the United States of Texas because of the broad range of real estate markets and is a microcosm of what's happening in the rest of the U.S. - more of the growth, population, and real estate opportunity getting concentrated in fewer, larger markets.