Chicago Transit Authority Employees Retirement Plan is searching for emerging markets debt and global fixed-income managers, said RFPs on the pension fund’s website.
Commingled funds are preferred. Allocation sizes and funding sources could not be learned by press time.
The RFPs are available on the pension fund’s website. The deadline is 3 p.m. CST Jan. 9. Anticipated hiring dates were not disclosed. Investment consultant Marquette Associates is assisting.
As of June 30, the $1.9 billion fund had a target allocation of 36% U.S. equities, 22% fixed income, 15% non-U.S. equities, 11% hedge funds, 10% real assets and 6% private equity.
John Kallianis, the fund’s executive director; Jim O’Connell, the fund’s general counsel; Miguel Zarate, managing partner at Marquette; and Kweku Obed, senior vice president at Marquette; could not be reached for additional information by press time.
