The search is one of three being conducted by the plan this year due to the contract expirations of incumbent consultants.
The search is for North American value-add and opportunistic real estate funds.
Plan added a hedge fund commitment to an emerging manager in addition to a pair of private equity commitments.
The plan currently has issued RFPs for both private equity managers and consultants offering general investment and alternatives markets services.
The pension fund promoted its next cio from within.
He will oversee the strategic growth and innovation of the firm.
The transaction was first announced in March.
He will help the investment team and portfolio company leaders to innovate and scale through cloud, data, analytics, artificial intelligence and security transformation initiatives.
All major public asset classes besides commodities suffering heavy losses, the plan said.
The negative performance was primarily driven by public equity and fixed-income.