Louisiana Assessors Retirement System, Baton Rouge, hired Orleans...

Louisiana Assessors Retirement System, Baton Rouge, hired Orleans Capital and Conseco Capital as the $100 million pension fund’s first external bond manager, said Cathy Wells, executive director. Each will run half of a $50 million active core fixed-income portfolio, which was managed internally. The search was done in-house with some help from Bob Borden, chief investment officer of Louisiana State Employees’ Retirement Systems.