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The state trust fund has hired a new real estate manager to handle investments in a core real estate index fund and a secondaries fund.
The university has allocated approximately $15 million to a passive strategy that invests in the Bitcoin digital asset.
The commitments include two new relationships for the council.
The plan hired an emerging manager consultant this summer.
The plan has issued an RFP seeking non-discretionary consulting services.
The plan will receive presentations from a credit manager and a farmland manager in the coming months.
The retirement system added a trio of domestic core-plus fixed-income investments at last week’s board meeting.
The pension fund also added several private markets commitments in recent months.
The university made a commitment with a venture fund-of-funds that invests in seed-stage start-up companies nationally with a focus on firms based in the Greater Cincinnati region.
The firm has entered a strategic partnership with a lower middle market private equity firm after making an anchor investment in the firm’s flagship strategy.