Emerging/Diverse Managers

The new firm will focus predominately on healthcare, industrial, media and marketing, outsourcing, manufacturing and packaging, technology, transportation and logistics and financial and professional services.

The recommendation will come from its general investment consultant later this month.

Plan intends to launch a search for emerging markets and international small-cap equity managers to handle allocations of up to 8% each.

Plan will issue an RFP seeking minority-, women- and disabled-owned private equity managers for a $20 million allocation later this year.

Hackett took the time to answer five questions from FIN News.

The plan will interview finalists for its diverse private equity fund-of-funds search next month and tentatively selected a winner in its emerging markets equity search.