Real Estate
The hires followed finalist interviews held at last month’s board meeting while the fund decided against hiring either of the two closed-end core real estate managers it considered.
Plan disclosed new private equity and real estate commitments at its meeting last week.
Plan selected two finalists in its emerging markets small-cap equity search and added a real assets commitment for pacing purposes today.
The plan approved adding an unconstrained fixed-income manager to provide additional alpha generation and diversification to its portfolio at a meeting this week.
The plan placed a firm on watch for failing to meet performance criteria and eliminated its REITs managers to reduce overall volatility within its real estate portfolio.
The strategy is firm’s first fund created specifically to serve the foundation and endowment investors.
The fund approved fully redeeming from a real estate manager this week due to continued underperformance as its strategy has been affected by its concentration in office and retail properties.
Plan added a follow-on commitment to a multi-family real estate fund in April.
Plan made commitments to eight existing managers and one new manager last month.