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Coller Capital survey and news briefs about LPs in Illinois, Tennessee and Montana
Adam Tosh LP: Kentucky Retirement Systems Title: Chief Investment Officer Age: 38 Prior jobs: Senior Fixed Income Investment Strategist with MDL Capital Management and Director of Fixed Income at the Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System Education: Degrees in Economics, Politics and Government from Ohio Wesleyan University Awards: One of Money Management Letter’s 2009 “Rising Stars […]
The $32 billion Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois recently hired an investment officer to administer its emerging managers program, which includes private equity as well as other asset classes. Kenyatta Matheny started at his new post on May 17. He previously was with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, where he served […]
LP-related news briefs about Permira, TRS Texas and New Jersey
Sir Ernest Shackleton offered only “small wages” to the men who joined him in his 1914 expedition to cross the frozen continent of Antartica. Now the private equity firm named after the famed explorer wants to do far better for the investors that sign on for its journey of acquisition. Financial terms of buyout partnerships […]
You’d think that one of the least likely consequences of the global economic crisis would be an increase in allocations to emerging managers. Indeed, as institutional investors reconsider and diversify their allocations, conventional wisdom suggests that they would have reduced their exposure to lesser-known managers. In fact, many pension funds and other institutional investors are […]
News briefs about LPs in Ohio, California and Mexico
The California State Teachers’ Retirement System recently committed $100 million to the fourth iteration of the Banc of America Merrill Lynch Capital Access Fund, even though the returns of the three predecessor funds are all in negative territory. CalSTRS, as the pension fund is known, previously committed to the earlier three funds as well. The […]
LP briefs about Oklahoma and others
The $126 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund recently announced four pledges made in December totaling $160 million, three to emerging managers and one to a firm investing in China and India. Bunker Hill Capital received a $25 million pledge for Bunker Hill Capital II through the Pioneer Partnership Fund B, which is part […]