Breaking News Breaking News <![CDATA[Chicago Teachers’ Adds PE Fund, Considers Liquidity]]> The Public School Teachers’ Pension and Retirement Fund of Chicago (CTPF) added additional monies to current private equity manager HarbourVest as it plans to continually up its ante to the alternative class.

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<![CDATA[Alaska Permanent Fund Brings More Investments In-House]]> The Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC) has created new internally managed programs for equities and the co-investment of absolute return funds and private equity, it announced Thursday.

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<![CDATA[Land of Lincoln Teachers OKs Searches, Terminations]]> With school coming to an end next month, trustees for a Springfield, Ill.-based teachers’ pension fund made some strategic moves today for the betterment of its nearly $40 billion portfolio.

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<![CDATA[Mike Underhill, Capital Innovations]]> Mike Underhill is CIO at Capital Innovations, a Wisconsin-based independent real assets investment manager that provides infrastructure, timber and agriculture focused investments. Underhill is the latest participant in IMMP’s “5 Questions.”

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<![CDATA[$10B Employee Pension Fund Slates Search Talks]]> If all goes according to plan, trustees at a pension fund based in California’s third most populous county will wrap two ongoing searches and draft criteria for a bond manager addition next week.

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<![CDATA[Large-Cap Pro Retires from BMO Asset Management]]> Daniel Sido, a 19-year veteran at BMO Global Asset Management, has retired from his role as chief investment strategist and lead portfolio manager for large-cap value and core strategies, the firm confirmed Friday. His departure was effective May 1.

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<![CDATA[MainePERS Approves Brookfield, CVC Funds]]> The Maine Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), an Augusta-based pension plan, stretched its private markets reach across international borders with two approved investments this week.

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<![CDATA[Midwest Public Plan Targets Domestic Examination]]> Trustees for a nearly $10 billion teachers retirement pension plan based in Illinois took a hard look at its domestic equity manager lineup last month, which may hint at possible future changes to the asset class.

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<![CDATA[$2B Yellowhammer Fund Hammers Out Swaps]]> New meeting materials provided by the Alabama State Treasury Department note that significant changes to the more than $2.3 billion state fund are afoot.

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<![CDATA[More SEC Pension, Disclosure Cases May Be On Way]]> The Securities and Exchange Commission will continue to consider possible enforcement actions over pension and other disclosure failures such as those that occurred in Illinois and Harrisburg, Pa., the SEC’s muni office chief said Wednesday.

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<![CDATA[West Coast Plan Preps A/L Study]]> A soup to nuts review of a Bay Area employee pension plan’s assets and liabilities will be discussed next Tuesday.

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<![CDATA[Kentucky Teachers’ Promotes Add-On, New Funds]]> Despite slight tweaks to total asset allocation targets, Investment Committee members for the Teachers’ Retirement System of Kentucky (KTRS) approved more than $355 million in new and add-on commitments in various strategies.

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<![CDATA[Midwest Highway Patrol Charts Investment Searches]]> A nearly $800 million retirement fund in Columbus, Ohio, administered for its Highway Patrol force, is driving towards a new set of investment goals.

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<![CDATA[L.A. Water and Power Fund Discusses Real Estate Goals]]> The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Employees’ Retirement Plan’s (WPERP) considered a 2013 real estate strategic plan with Courtland Partners, its consultant in the asset class, at a late-March meeting.

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<![CDATA[Windy City Retirement Coffer Schedules RFP]]> Non-traditional investment possibilities are currently under review by a nearly $1.3 billion retirement portfolio based in Chicago.

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