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Wisconsin’s state pension system committed $562 million to various private equity funds in Q4, materials from its March meeting show. A State of Wisconsin Investment Board representative told Buyouts the board does not approve private-market commitments but receives updates every quarter. Fourth-quarter commitments include: $100 million to Lindsay Goldberg V, targeting $4 billion. Lindsay Goldberg invests in […]

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Emerging managers raised more than $3.1 billion over the past few weeks. Four venture firms and three private equity firms raised over $100 million, one of which raised over $1 billion. That one firm was Kandle Group, which raised $1.2 billion from five commitments. James A. Davidson, co-founder of Silver Lake, is listed as Kandle’s […]

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Oregon Treasury committed $350 million to private equity and credit investments, and its chief investment officer made the case that paying high PE fees has helped add billions to the state’s retirement fund over the years. The investment council, which manages the $74.5 billion state retirement fund and its $1.5 billion common school fund, committed […]

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New York City Retirement System added $600 million to its emerging-managers program in private equity, New York City Pension Fund and City Comptroller Scott Stringer said. The increase brings the program’s total assets to $1.5 billion. Total assets for small and emerging investment managers expanded to $8.8 billion across all asset classes, a 57 percent increase […]

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California Public Employees’ Retirement Plan published a request for proposals for investment consultants, seeking bids for general investment services and three specialized private-markets asset classes. The new contracts would begin in July 2020 and would enable CalPERS to refresh all its consulting contracts at once rather than issuing four separate RFPs on differing timelines. The $354 […]

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San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System pledged $225 million to funds from ABRY Partners, Genstar Capital and TPG, according to a memo from CIO William Coaker prepared for its March 13 meeting. The pension invested $75 million in Genstar Capital Partners IX and Genstar IX Priority Co-invest program in January. The pool’s ninth fund received $56.2 […]

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Employee Retirement System of Texas, like several other U.S. public systems, is considering changing the way it measures the performance of its private equity program, a recorded discussion from the system’s March meeting shows. The board wants to move from its current benchmark, MSCWI ACWI IMI plus 300 basis points, to Wilshire TUCS Peer Universe Benchmark. […]

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California Public Employees’ Retirement System will seek permission to proceed with the creation of two direct private equity funds, scheduling an initial vote on the concept for its March 18 investment committee meeting. The plan, discussed for nearly a year, would create a new CalPERS-controlled organization of two new funds with the pension system as […]

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Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System approved an investment policy that raises the limits on commitment sizes, though the pension plans to “ease into” the higher commitments. The $17 billion retirement system at its Feb. 26 meeting approved three commitments totaling $95 million. The commitments were the first ones recommended by private equity consultant TorreyCove, which […]

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Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System at its March meeting committed more than $415 million in private equity, real estate and absolute return. PA PSERS committed $150 million to Searchlight Capital’s Fund III, which focuses on middle-market companies in communication services, IT, consumer discretionary and more in North America and Western Europe. Searchlight is targeting […]