Orange County Employees
Retirement System
($ millions)
Total assets 3,844
Defined benefit 3,844
Employer DB contributions 49
Benefit payments 100
The fund uses:
Stock options
Bond options
Stock index futures
Fixed-income futures
Defined benefit asset mix:
Stocks 50%
Fixed income 34%
Cash equivalents 1%
Real estate equity 12%
Other 3%
SANTA ANA, Calif. - As of Sept. 30, the Orange County Employees Retirement System's total employee benefit assets increased 24.5% from 15 months earlier. All assets are defined benefit.
Defined benefit managers:
Domestic equities: Amerindo; Columbus Circle; Delaware Investment; Husic; STI; Wells Fargo.
International equities: Capital Guardian; Schroder.
Domestic fixed-income: Boston Partners;
Kennedy; ABN AMRO; Loomis Sayles; PIMCO.
International fixed-income: Delaware.
Real estate: American Realty; PMRealty; GIM; Metric; Heitman; D.A. Management; Sentinel; Pricoa.
Other: Brinson.
The master custodian and global custodian is Bankers Trust.
Key personnel overseeing the investment management of the fund are Raymond Fleming, administrator; and Farouki Majeed, chief investment officer.
Oregon Public Employes
Retirement Fund
($ millions)
Total assets 28,074
Defined benefit 27,718
401(k)/457 356
Employer DB contributions 467
Benefit payments 856
Total DC contributions 26
Internally managed assets:
Defined benefit 5,500
The fund uses:
Stock options
Bond options
Stock index futures
Short selling
Managed futures
Swaps
Defined benefit asset mix:
Stocks 60%
Fixed income 21%
Cash equivalents 1%
Private equity 10%
Real estate equity 8%
Defined contribution asset mix:
Stock 58%
Fixed income 2%
GICs/BICs 30%
Cash equivalents 10%
SALEM, Ore. - As of Sept. 30, the Oregon Public Employes Retirement System's total employee benefit assets increased 17.5% from a year earlier. Defined benefit assets increased 16% during the same period; defined contribution assets rose 8.5%.
Employer contributions to the defined benefit plan increased 5%; benefits paid increased 16%.
Defined benefit managers:
Domestic equities: Alliance; BGI; Becker; Brown; Columbia; Equinox; Fiduciary Trust; Froley Revy; Nicholas-Applegate; Oak Associates; Palisade; RCB Trust; Sanford Bernstein; Thompson/Rubinstein; Wanger; Wellington; Zesiger.
Global/international equities: Acadian; Clay-Finlay; Cursitor-Eaton; Genesis; Marvin & Palmer; Nomura; Rowe Price-Fleming.
International fixed-income: Mercury; Rogge Global.
Real estate: JER; Lone Star; LaSalle; Oaktree Capital; J.W. O'Connor; National Mortgage; Heitman Capital; MetLife; PMRealty; TransEuropean Properties; Brazos Fund; Hampstead; Jones Lang Wootton; Allegis; Equity Group Investments; PSI Institutional; Prudential Timber; AEW; L&B; PacTrust; AMRESCO; GMAC; Cadillac Fairview; Hancock Timber; J.P. Morgan; U.S. Prime Property; Pacific Mutual; Security Capital Group; Westbrook.
Alternative equity managers: Asia Pacific; BCI Advisors; Canterbury Mezzanine; Castle Harlan; CVC Capital European; Doughty Hanson; HSBC; Hancock Venture; Hicks Muse; Joseph Littlejohn & Levy; KKR; Oaktree; Olympic Venture; Penman; Providence Ventures; Stonington Partners; TCW/Crescent Mezzanine; Texas Pacific Group; TSG Ventures; Vestar; Wellspring; Zell Chilmark.
Venture capital managers: Cable & Howse; Crossroads; Interven Partners; MBW; Menlo; Morgenthaler; New Enterprise; Norwest; Olympic; Oppenheimer Palmieri; Summit; Weiss, Peck & Greer.
Defined contribution managers:
Domestic equities: Aeltus, Columbia, Fidelity, Vanguard, Harbor Funds, SEI, Davic, Putnam, Brandywine, AIM.
International equities: T. Rowe Price, Scudder, Templeton.
Domestic fixed-income: Harbor Funds, Aeltus, Miller Anderson.
The master trustee/custodian and global custodian is State Street.
Key personnel overseeing the investment management of the fund are Dan Smith, director-investments; Bill Unverzagt, senior fixed-income investment officer; Jay Fewel, senior equities investment officer; and Gary Combs, senior real estate investment officer. Overseeing the defined contribution plan is Linda Haglund, equities investment officer.
Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
($ millions)
Total assets* 8,621
Defined benefit 6,149
*401(k) 2,472
Employer DB contributions 34
Benefit payments 236
Total DC contributions 121
*As of June 30
The fund uses:
Stock options
Stock index futures
Fixed-income futures
Defined benefit asset mix:
Stocks 75%
Fixed income 20%
Real estate equity 5%
Defined contribution asset mix:
Company stock 39%
Other stock 41%
Fixed income 1%
GICs/BICs 12%
Balanced 7%
SAN FRANCISCO - As of June 30, Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s total employee benefit assets increased 18% from Sept. 30, 1996. Defined benefit assets increased 17% during the same period; defined contribution assets increased 21%.
Employer contributions to the defined benefit plan were the same; benefits paid also remained unchanged.
Defined benefit managers:
Domestic equities: Bankers Trust; BGI; Duncan-Hurst; Fiduciary Trust; Frank Russell Trust; Geewax Terker; GSB; ICM; Jacobs Levy; J.P. Morgan; Sturdivant; Valenzuela; State Street Global.
International equities: Bankers Trust; BGI; Capital Guardian; Jennison; J.P. Morgan; Montgomery Asset; Oechsle; State Street Global.
Domestic fixed-income: MetLife; Miller, Anderson; Prudential Private; Sanford C. Bernstein; Seix; Standish, Ayer.
Tactical asset allocation: BGI; PanAgora.
Real estate: ABKB/LaSalle; Corporate Property Investors; Ell Realty; Heitman; LaSalle; RREEF; Westmark.
Cash: Fischer Francis.
Defined contribution managers:
Domestic equities: J.P. Morgan; Mellon Equity; State Street Bank.
Domestic fixed-income: Vanguard.
Balanced: Columbia Trust.
Stable Value: PRIMCO.
The master trustee/custodian and global custodian is State Street Bank.
Key personnel overseeing the investment management of the defined banefit and defined contribution plans are Peter K. Corippo, manager, investments and benefit finance; Carolyn Margiotti, financial analyst; and Patricia W. Thompson, senior financial analyst.
