Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System, Oklahoma City, is searching for at least one manager to run $80 million to $100 million in active domestic small-cap or smidcap growth equities, confirmed Chase Rankin, assistant controller.
The $1.5 billion system will consider strategies primarily benchmarked to the Russell 2000 Growth or Russell 2500 Growth indexes. The system already has $82 million in a small-cap and smidcap value strategy. Information on who manages the strategy or a funding source for the new mandate was not available by press time.
The RFP is available on the retirement system’s website at http://www.ok.gov/fprs/RFP/index.html.
Proposals must be e-mailed to system consultant Asset Consulting Group at [email protected] and also mailed to Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System, c/o Finley & Cook, Audit Department, 1421 E. 45th St., Shawnee, OK 74804.
Proposals are due by July 20. A selection by the retirement board is expected on or after Oct. 15, according to the RFP.