Private Equity
Michael Bailey will join the $50.6bn retirement system in February to manage its $5.8bn private equity portfolio.
2 min read · 21 September 2013
Craig Nickels, who took over the private markets portfolio at Washington University in 2007, now manages US fund investments for the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.
1 min read · 21 September 2013
The system committed $110m to private equity last year, but has plans to slow its commitment activity in 2013.
1 min read · 21 September 2013
The $13.7bn Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana is targeting between $300m and $400m in private equity commitments this fiscal year, spread between five or six funds.
2 min read · 21 September 2013
Robert "Bo" Ramsey, a senior investment analyst who has been with the system less than a year, has assumed the title of director of private equity, replacing former chief Bob Clone.
2 min read · 21 September 2013
The $154bn system's investment committee has approved removing its exposure to gun makers after the Connecticut school massacre in December.
3 min read · 21 September 2013
The appointment of ex-SVG exec Marta Jankovic comes as PGGM, a fellow Dutch pension manager, continues to build up its own private equity management team.
2 min read · 21 September 2013
The $151.7bn system committed hundreds of millions of dollars to managers like Silver Lake, Lexington and Advent, but also to ‘strategic investment’ managers such as GSO.
1 min read · 21 September 2013
The $12.4bn pension fund’s $55m commitment to Warburg Pincus’ latest mega-fund is its first with the firm.
2 min read · 21 September 2013
The US' 'peach' state, which only last year authorised its pensions to invest in alternatives, has hired Ben Cahyono and Catharine Burkett as co-directors of alternatives.
2 min read · 21 September 2013
