International / Global / Emerging Markets
The plan made the hires after restructuring its international equity and U.S. fixed-income manager portfolios.
The plan recently hired four hedge fund managers as part of its transition to a direct investment model.
The watch status is due to a co-portfolio manager’s abrupt departure from the firm.
The plan will consider hiring five multi-asset credit managers and terminating five existing managers.
Plan approved two international large-cap equity manager hires after restarting a search last year.
The university revised the asset allocation for the policy portfolios of two of its asset pools, increasing the allocations to global equity through a consolidation of its public real assets position.
The plan, whose incumbent was first hired in 2016, is seeking managers to handle between $30 million and $40 million.
The new structure introduces a target to short-duration fixed-income and eliminates the plan’s passive core fixed-income target.
The firm had been on watch since the third quarter of 2019 due to underperformance.
The plan will first issue RFPs for global infrastructure and tactical asset allocation managers.
