The CEO of TIFF Advisory Services, Inc., has issued a brief progress report on the investment team transition first reported to our members on December 8, 2009. [Posted on February 2, 2010]
We are pleased to announce that N.P. "Narv" Narvekar, president and CEO of the Columbia Investment Management Co., which manages Columbia University's endowment, joined TIFF's mutual fund board as of January 1, 2010. Before taking up his duties at Columbia in 2002, Narv was Managing Director of Investments at the University of Pennsylvania and prior to that a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan, where he focused on equity derivatives and private placements. [Posted on January 7, 2010]
By year-end 2010, TIFF Advisory Services Inc. will undergo a personnel transition aimed at perpetuating its capacity to pursue investment excellence while enabling our founding president and chief investment officer, David Salem, to devote increased time to projects outside TIFF. Memoranda about the transition from CEO Richard Flannery and from David himself are now available. [Posted on December 8, 2009]
Please click here for information regarding pending changes to the policy portfolio of a TIFF mutual fund. By clicking on this link, you will leave the TIFF General News section of the website and enter the TIFF Mutual Fund News section of the website. [Posted on November 16, 2009]
We are pleased to announce that Richard Lindsey, chief executive officer of the Callcott Group LLC, a New York-based consulting firm specializing in risk management and portfolio allocation, will join the board of TIFF Advisory Services (TAS) in December. Rich is also chairman of the International Association of Financial Engineers and serves as the independent director for the Options Clearing Corporation. Previously, he was a finance professor at Yale University, chief economist and director of market regulation at the Securities and Exchange Commission, and, until December 2006, president of Bear, Stearns Securities Corp. [Posted on September 29, 2009]
Please click here for information regarding the July 1, 2009 changes to the policy portfolio of a TIFF mutual fund. By clicking on this link, you will leave the TIFF General News section of the website and enter the TIFF Mutual Fund News section of the website. [Posted on July 1, 2009]
We are pleased to announce that Erik Lundberg, chief investment officer at the University of Michigan, will join the board of TIFF Advisory Services (TAS) in June. Before taking up his duties in Ann Arbor in 1999, Erik was a corporate investment strategist, overseeing pension and other plan assets. He is a CFA charterholder. [Posted on May 27, 2009]
Will McLean, chief investment officer at Northwestern University, and John Craig, executive vice president and chief operating officer of The Commonwealth Fund in New York, have joined the board of the TIFF Education Foundation (TEF). Will has been a stalwart on the board of TIFF Advisory Services (TAS) since 2000. During his tenure, Will has tirelessly and skillfully chaired multiple committees as well as the TAS board itself. Although Will stepped aside from his TAS role in March, we are delighted that he has agreed to remain within the TIFF family by shifting his wise counsel to an expanded TEF board, where he has been joined by John Craig. We thank John profusely for returning to the TIFF fold for a second tour of duty - John was a founding board member when TIFF was organized in 1991 and served until 2001. [Posted on May 27, 2009]
Please click here for information regarding TIFF's origins, evolving mission and the outlook for certain forms of investing in which TIFF is engaged. By clicking on this link, you will leave the TIFF General News section of the website and enter the TIFF Mutual Fund News section of the website. [Posted on May 20, 2009]
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