Dartmouth names new CIO

Dartmouth College’s endowment has appointed one of its investment committee members as chief investment officer, the Hanover, New Hampshire-based university said on Monday.

Pamela Peedin, the current CIO, is stepping down this month after more than six years in the role to spend more time with her family, she said in November. Alice Ruth, a current member of the endowment’s investment committee, will replace Peedin in April.

“Pam has brought great skill, discipline, and rigor to her role in managing the endowment,” Phil Hanlon, the university’s president, said when Peedin announced her departure. “She has also brought great success. She will be greatly missed, but we respect the decision she’s made.”

The New Hampshire-based endowment allocated 9 percent of its $4.5 billion in assets to venture capital and private equity at the end of its fiscal year ended 30 June.Incoming CIO Ruth was the CIO for billionaire and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s family office, Willett Advisors, from April 2008 to December, according to her LinkedIn profile.

Previously, she had held the same role for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation from 2001 to 2008. Ruth graduated from Dartmouth in 1984 and was also on the search committee for the endowment’s CIO.

The endowment’s venture capital and private equity portfolio led the 10-year annualised returns for the period ended 30 June, generating 13.3 percent. The endowment overall returned 7.2 percent.