Virginia Retirement System discloses new commitments of $375M

The pension plan has made new allocations to a real asset and a credit fund
The pension plan has made new allocations to a real asset and a credit fund
The pension plan will begin its search for a new RA consultant in May
In his new role, Smith will oversee the $10.7B endowment fund's private equity and venture investments.
Deputy executive director David
Etheridge will step up as acting executive director
As of Dec. 31, 2024, PSP Investments held 690,063 shares of Tesla, valued at more than US$278M.
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The pension plan has committed almost
$500M to PE and RE buckets
Banik's team has opted to be a bit more cash heavy going into the endowment fund’s fiscal year end.
The pension plan expects infra to
provide stronger risk-adjusted returns
The transaction, valued at approximately €900M, is expected to close by the end of April 2025.
The foundation welcomes Rebecca
Carland and Shanna Charles
Returns across IMCO’s client portfolios ranged from 8.2% to 11.3%.
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The decision will be made at its June
meeting
The CPPIB is investing a further C$346M in India's National Highways Infra Trust.
Following the transaction, Blackstone will hold a 49.9% equity interest (with a 20% voting interest) in the subsidiary).
Following his own request, Gregor Asshoff will step down in June
Reitzes said the Medicus Pension Plan's funded status remains well above 100%, which will allow it to move into new opportunities.
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The Kansas Public Employees Retirement System allocated $440M to its real assets sleeve.
The pension plan has also expanded its target investments to women and minority owned firms
The return came in slightly below the total fund benchmark return of 13.8%.
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In a press release, the Comptroller said Tesla has suffered financially, causing enormous losses for its shareholders.
Launched in February, Indonesia's Danantara is projected to manage more than $900B in assets from across the banking, energy and telecommunications sectors.
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Based in Cheyenne, the new CIO is expected to be hired by June
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U.S. equities generated the highest return, increasing 2.80% in the fourth quarter and 23.38% for the full calendar year.
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Vermette joins the pension fund after serving as the National Bank of Canada's senior vice-president of internal audit.
The plan is focused on middle market companies in North America and Europe
The pension plan has outperformed its benchmark for the calendar year 2024
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The pension plan also made new allocations to its private equity portfolio
Bienvenue is leaving to join private equity firm General Atlantic as managing director, leading the firm’s capital solutions initiatives for pension plans.
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Government Pension Investment Fund has found Masataka Miyazono’s successor
The fund missed its 2024 total
benchmark return of 12.9%.
Sean Olesen is the former head of private equity at Cornell.
The system will initiate its recruitment process of finding a successor in the summer
Investment director is a newly opened position in the system
The pension plan is leaning more towards non-core RE funds
As
per a recent news release, the pension plan has eliminated treasury inflation-protected
securities bucket
Moving
away from public equities and real estate, the plan has a new target allocation
for its portfolio
In February, Vickers joined the firm, which manages three major philanthropies endowed by the Rothschild family.
Baker and Pliner will assume their new roles, effective Apr. 1.