Dietrich Knauth

San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System in August and September made $126 million in private equity commitments, targeting growth and venture capital strategies. SFERS, which has $24.3 billion in assets, invested in three GGV funds, two Level Equity funds and one Polaris Partners fund, a report CIO William Coaker prepared for the system’s Sept. 12 meeting shows. […]

The $3.7 billion San Jose Police and Fire Pension Plan, hoping to leverage its access to data about new and promising companies in its backyard, is exploring a new venture-capital strategy that would make very-early-stage investments in Silicon Valley startups. The system has brought on Stanford Professor Ashby Monk to help it design a program […]

Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund committed up to $450 million across four private equity investments using its newly increased authority to commit up to $350 million without the full investment council’s approval. Oregon Investment Council, which oversees $103 billion in assets, including the state’s $79 billion public-pension system, updated its investment policy in March to […]