SFERS approves $275m in commitments

The US public pension has made its first commitments to debt funds for 2019.

Institution: San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
AUM: $24.14bn
Allocation to alternatives: 38.4%
Bitesize: $50-$100m

San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System announced commitments of $100 million each to Taurus Mining Finance Fund II and SSG Capital Partners V and $75 million to OrbiMed Royalty & Credit Opportunities III.

As illustrated in the charts below, the $24.14 billion US public pension has a 10.0 percent target allocation to private debt that currently stands at 2.50 percent. These are SFERS first commitments to private debt funds for 2019.

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