The plan hired three new firms and retained two more to conclude its core fixed-income manager search.
The pension fund added an active manager to complement index fund manager RhumbLine Advisers.
The search is open to funds that invest in diverse-owned firms.
The new firm replaces a manager terminated in August due to significant leadership change.
The plan is searching for small-cap firms for a domestic equity portfolio that is entirely with large-cap managers.
The plan began searching for managers after increasing its target to the asset class.
The pension fund is replacing its cio who retired last month.
The state plan will invest up to $1 billion with portable alpha managers in 2021.
The private commitments include two to new firms and one to an existing manager.
A teachers pension fund in the South has earmarked $630 million to real assets and private equity.