Equity
The fund will interview three finalists at a board meeting this month after narrowing its international equity manager search from 15 total proposals.
The university added an international equity investment with an existing manager within its portfolio in the fourth quarter.
The plan is expected to issue the RFPs next month.
The plan is also searching for an emerging markets ex-China manager.
The retirement system also disclosed a high-yield bond manager hire to complete a search launched last year.
The pension plan hired two equity managers and replaced its existing money market manager in the second quarter.
The plan also issued its RFP seeking passive fixed-income managers.
The plan adopted a new asset allocation that also eliminated risk parity and more than doubled its hedge fund target this week.
The deferred compensation plan terminated one of its diversified emerging markets equity managers due to low participant usage and underperformance.
The RFP was slated to be issued to comply with standard state procurement laws.