The Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System has invested an additional $100 million in real estate secondaries, according to documents from its October board meeting.
The investment was made in PSERS’ real estate in-house secondary and co-investment programme. In March, the board approved a $100 million investment in the programme, bringing this year’s total to $200 million.
The programme allows PSERS to make secondaries investments and co-investments in real estate funds where PSERS is already an investor. Each investment can be up to $15 million.
PSERS launched the programme in 2012 in an effort to reduce fees, enhance returns and bolster existing relationships.
Investing more via secondaries and co-investments gives the pension “potential for better returns” which has been a “current trend in the industry”, PSERS private markets and real estate managing director Charles Spiller has said.
PSERS also has an in-house secondaries and co-investment programme for private debt, which it committed $100 million to in March.
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