Texas County & District Retirement System, Austin, committed $50 million to Resource Capital Fund VI, a global mining private equity fund being raised by Resource Capital Funds.
The pension fund also made a $10 million commitment to Spark Capital IV, a venture capital fund managed by Spark Capital that will invest in early stage advertising, commerce, service, social media, cloud and infrastructure funds.
The commitments were made Feb. 21, according to a transaction report on the $19.7 billion pension fund's website.
TCDRS' private equity/distressed debt/private real estate portfolio commitments now total $1.862 billion.