IDB Invest, the private-sector arm of the Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDB) and the Overseas Private Investment Corporate ( OPIC) have partnered to launch Fund Mujer, the first gender-focused fund for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), to invest in female entrepreneurs, companies with a significant share of women leaders, and firms that generate jobs or consumer products for women. …
Global institutions’ target allocations to real estate are climbing, especially in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and the Asia Pacific (APAC), according to a report published last week by consultancy Hodes Weill & Associates and Cornell University. Yet, despite a rise in institutional confidence in the real estate sector for the first time …
Institutional Allocator Reporter Kaitlyn Mitchell sat down with Susan Slocum, treasurer and chief investment officer (CIO) of Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota (Children’s), a foundation with $750 million in assets under management (AUM), while attending Markets Group’s 5thAnnual Great Plains Forum in Minnesota on September 12. Slocum ascended from treasurer to treasurer and investment officer …
According to a report released by Gapstow Capital Partners, an investment advisor that focuses exclusively on credit, many U.S. pension funds are now beefing up their alternative credit allocations, in many cases by decreasing investment in traditional fixed income. “We saw a lot of interest in alternative credit coming at the expense of traditional fixed …
The Frankfort, Ky.-based Kentucky Retirement Systems (KRS), with $17.6 billion in assets under management, has embarked on an approximately $350 million strategic investment partnership with Barings, a global investment management firm, and Barings parent company, Mass Mutual, to launch the Barings Real Estate European Value Add I Fund. According to Andy Kiehl, director of real estate and real …
The Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System, with approximately $32 billion in assets under management, has commenced a search for high-yield fixed-income management services from one or more managers. The request for proposals (RFP) for the mandate is due November 6. The move comes despite the fund’s engagement during the summer of a consultant to assist …
This week, IA reporter Kaitlyn Mitchell spoke with Craig Husting, chief investment officer and assistant executive director of the Public School and Education Employee Retirement Systems of Missouri (PSRS/PEERS). Husting has been CIO of the $44.5 billion funds since 1999 and has made some major changes during that time: the investment staff has grown from …
Reginald D. Tucker, senior investment officer of opportunistic investments and absolute return strategies at the New York Common Retirement Fund (NYCRF) spoke with IA about the fund’s allocation to private debt, a fairly new asset class for the fund. Tucker gave details about the breakdown of the asset type in the fund’s opportunistic portfolio, the returns it …
The Missouri State Employees’ Retirement System(MOSERS), located in Jefferson City, Missouri, is seeking proposals from investment consulting firms in its search for a specialty consultant for public markets (SC-PM), according to an October 4 announcement on its website. The SC-PM will assist Seth Kelly, chief investment officer (CIO), Shannon Davidson, deputy CIO, and the rest …
At its Southwest Institutional Forum in Santa Fe, N.M. on September 20, Markets Group gathered together three New Mexico-based institutional investors to discuss a variety of investment-related topics. They included Bob Jacksha, chief investment officer, New Mexico Educational Retirement System, which administers $13 billion; Robert “Vince” Smith, chief investment officer, New Mexico State Investment Council, …
