Houston Municipal Employees Pension System made a total of $40 million in private equity commitments, spokesman Peter Koops said in an e-mail.
The $2.5 billion pension fund committed $25 million to Siris Partners III, managed by Siris Capital Group, and $15 million to NMS Fund II, managed by New MainStream Capital.
The pension fund has a 17.5% target allocation to private equity.
