Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund

Oregon Investment Council, which runs the $61 billion Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, committed $75 million to buyout fund Riverside Capital Appreciation Fund VI and invested an initial $150 million in Dimensional Fund Advisors' active microcap equity strategy.

Oregon Investment Council, which runs the $60.3 billion Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, committed $100 million each to Stonepeak Infrastructure Fund and private equity fund A&M Capital Partners.

The Oregon Investment Council is supporting legislation that would allow it to manage equities in-house, saving millions of dollars in fees.

Ted Wheeler is not your average state treasurer. When the Oregon treasurer — who sits on the Oregon Investment Council, Tigard, which runs the $59.7 billion Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, Salem — wants to relieve stress, he puts on a pair of running shoes and hits the road. That is, when

Incumbent candidates and parties largely won re-election in state and local races Nov. 6, thwarting proposals by several losing candidates to place new public employees into defined contribution plans.

Oregon Investment Council conditionally committed $100 million to Public Pension Capital Management, a new private equity evergreen fund managed by two former KKR executives.

John Skjervem was named director of the investment division of the Oregon State Treasury. He will begin his duties Nov. 1.

TPG Capital, trailing rivals that struck partnerships with large U.S. public pension funds, is seeking to secure its own big-ticket investor, with the Oregon Investment Council, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

Oregon Investment Council, Tigard, committed $225 million to KKR Asian Fund II.

The state of Oregon sued BP PLC, BP America Inc. and BP Exploration and Production Inc. for losses of close to $19 million suffered by the $56.9 billion Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, Salem, and other Oregon trust funds as a result of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill.

If a new infrastructure trust being set up by the city of Chicago is successful, it could prove to be a new model for melding private money — including institutional dollars — and traditional public financing.