These are tough times for university endowments -- there's the difficulty of producing consistent results; the questionable love of investments in hedge funds and private equity amid high fees and ...

Bernstein, Shai, Josh Lerner, and Filippo Mezzanotti. "Private Equity and Financial Fragility during the Crisis." Review of Financial Studies 32, no. 4 (April 2019): 1309–1373. (Earlier version ...

CalPERS had also recently increased the overall allocation to private equity from 8% to 13%, making it even more critical that Kim and the private equity team achieve their goals. ... "CalPERS Private ...

Harvard University’s endowment is in advanced talks to sell about $1 billion of private equity fund stakes, at a time when the school faces financial uncertainty compounded by pressure from ...

Harvard had 39% of its funds into private equity assets in 2024, according to the annual Harvard financial report. This is up from 34% in 2021, when the university also sold close to $1 billion of ...

A new study from Harvard Medical School is raising fresh concerns about hospitals controlled by private equity firms. Researchers found patient satisfaction dropped at hospitals that moved under ...

Harvard Management Company, which manages the Ivy League school's $32.7 billion endowment, said on Monday it promoted Lane MacDonald to oversee its private equity investments.

Harvard University's $26 billion endowment sold a chunk of its private equity portfolio at what now seems like a low point in the secondary market for such assets, financial statements show. Jane ...

Harvard University’s endowment is in advanced talks to sell about $1 billion of private equity fund stakes, at a time when the school faces financial uncertainty compounded by pressure from ...

Private equity is becoming less and less “private.” Public scrutiny and negative publicity is now a feature of daily life for much of the industry. In 2012, Colin Blaydon of the Tuck School of ...