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Cincinnati R.S. Faces Board Shake-Up

September 2, 2010 – The nearly $2 billion City of Cincinnati Retirement System (CRS) could see some new faces on its Board of Trustees come October.

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Ohio Guns & Hoses Terminates Acadian, Plans New Search

August 26, 2010 – As a result of a new non-U.S. equity structure allocation revision, the roughly $10.3 billion Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund (OP&F) Board of Trustees decided to let go of Acadian Asset Management to make room for a new small-cap ...

OPERS Seeks New Hedge Fund Advisor

August 24, 2010 – The Ohio Public Employees’ Retirement System (OPERS) has officially begun its search to find a new hedge fund advisor as the nearly $70 billion plan gets the ball rolling on its earlier decision to shift assets to the alternatives vehicle. According ...

Stanislaus County Takes on New Asset Mix

August 23, 2010 – The roughly $1.2 billion Stanislaus County Employees’ Retirement Association (StanCERA) has adopted a new asset allocation to include targets to mezzanine and infrastructure ...

Springfield P&F Makes Headway in Search Process

August 23, 2010 – The Springfield Police Officers' & Firefighters' Retirement System could possibly name its new investment consultant at a full Board meeting next month, Board Chairman Kenneth Homan told IMW. In a ...

Oklahoma PERS Rolls with Small-Cap Search

August 20, 2010 – The Oklahoma Public Employees’ Retirement System (OPERS) has approved and will issue an RFP for domestic value managers, executive director Tom Spencer confirmed to IMW today. He said the Board is looking to hire a small-cap firm ...

Merced County May Add More PE

August 20, 2010 – Since adding private equity as an asset class in 2003, the Merced County Employees’ Retirement Association (MCERA) has only made $30 million in commitments, a figure the that could potentially change following a recent look at the strategy. Last month ...

Kentucky Completes Liability Study, Shifts Allocations

August 20, 2010 – The nearly $12.9 billion Kentucky Retirement Systems (KRS) approved changes to its asset allocation targets yesterday that will effectively “reduce risk” for the Frankfort-based employees retirement plan, Mike Burnside, KRS executive director ...

Nebraska Investment Council Could Go Global

August 19, 2010 – While the asset studies conducted by the $13.6 billion Nebraska Investment Council (NIC) on the state’s defined benefit and cash balance benefit plans have left allocation targets unscathed, talks have now moved to exploring the addition ...

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