The pension plan hired the firm based on its favorable returns, low fees, diversification and low correlation to existing active core-plus fixed-income manager Loomis, Sayles & Company.
The fund is searching for firms to provide low duration/short-term fixed-income exposure for a $104 million allocation and is slated to conduct a search later this summer for a manager to handle a new approximately $200 million core bond portfolio.
The plan is seeking diverse-owned firms to handle short-term TIPS and long-term U.S. government bond managers to preferably run the allocations in passive or enhanced index strategies.