The $954 million Pittsburgh Comprehensive Municipal Pension Trust Fund made a hire in its local emerging manager search at a Dec. 1 board meeting.
The $131 billion Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation has issued its RFP seeking core fixed-income managers to handle a minimum of $50 million and maximum of $600 million each.
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System announced that it has made a $1 billion commitment “aimed at identifying and supporting the next generation of investor entrepreneurs in the private markets.”
The $70 billion Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System hired Benjamin Cotton as its new cio effective Jan. 17.
Anirudh Chowdhry joined the approximately $5.4 billion Fresno County (Calif.) Employees Retirement Association as its investment officer in November.
New York University Managing Director of Investments Lou Fernandes has joined the Museum of Modern Art as its next cio.
Phillip Tencick will join the $1.2 billion St. Paul (Minn.) Teachers’ Retirement Fund Association as its new executive director and cio.
The $22 billion Employees’ Retirement System of the State of Hawaii has appointed Kristin Varela as its new cio.
Johns Hopkins University promoted two high-level members of its investment team at the start of the fourth quarter.
By Shannon O’Leary, CIO at Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation
This month, we have our annual feature on military veterans in the asset management industry.