Nebraska Investment Council, Lincoln, committed $30 million to two alternative funds at its board meeting Thursday, Michael Walden-Newman, state investment officer, said in an email.
The council, which oversees $34.8 billion, committed $20 million to Ironsides Co-Investment Fund IV, a North…
Nearly half, or $650 million of its monthly allocation, went toward real estate funds.
The $247.7 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund (NYSCRF) committed more than $1.3 billion in new investments in March, nearly half of which was allocated to real estate funds, with the remainder going toward investments in fixed income, private equity, credit, and its Emerging Manager Program.
The pension fund committed $650 million to real estate funds, including $300 million to the LaSalle Property Fund, an open-ended fund structure that acquires and manages a diversified portfolio of core real estate; and $200 million to Oaktree Real Estate Opportunities Fund VIII, which focuses on opportunistic real estate debt and equity investments. Although the pension fund has an existing relationship with Oaktree Capital Management, it is a new relationship for the fund’s real estate team.
New York State Common discloses $1.1 billion in commitments
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New York State Common Retirement Fund, Albany, made 11 commitments totaling $1.08 billion in March, a newly released transaction report shows.
The report, posted on the website of Thomas DiNapoli, the state s comptroller and sole trustee of the $247.7 billion pension fund, disclosed within its real estate asset class a commitment of $300 million to LaSalle Property Fund, an open-end core real estate fund managed by
LaSalle Investment Management; $200 million to Oaktree Real Estate Opportunities Fund VIII, a distressed real estate fund managed by
Oaktree Capital Management; and $150 million to Kayne Anderson Real Estate Partners VI, an opportunistic real estate fund managed by
By Jon Peterson2021-02-11T10:55:00+00:00
I Squared Capital’s $12bn fundraise for its third global infrastructure fund is expected to close next quarter, according to an investor.
The Arkansas Teacher Retirement System said in a meeting document that it has approved a $50m commitment to ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund III, a fund planning to have a final close in the second quarter of this year.
The predecessor fund raised $7bn in September 2018.
The fund’s manager I Squared Capital is expected to be making a co-investment of not less than 2% of the total commitments.
The fund will target gross internal rate of returns of 15% to 20% and it will seek to generate an annual cash yield of 6% by the end of the fund’s commitment period.