{"id":10768,"date":"2009-06-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"calpers-to-expand-private-equity-vc-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2009\/calpers-to-expand-private-equity-vc-investments.html","title":{"rendered":"Calpers to expand private-equity, VC investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; The California Public Employees&#8217; Retirement System (Calpers), which manages $169 billion in public pension funds, may boost its private-equity investments by around 40 percent as slumping markets create some acquisition bargains.       <\/p>\n<p>Calpers&#8217; board next week is scheduled to vote on a plan that would increase the fund&#8217;s target for corporate buyout and venture-capital investments to 14 percent from 10 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman Clark McKinley said the fund&#8217;s $22.8 billion of such investments has jumped to 13 percent as the sinking value of stocks and other assets reduced the size of the overall fund.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"..\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/innovationNews\/idUSTRE5574KM20090608\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; The California Public Employees&#8217; Retirement System (Calpers), which manages $169 billion in public pension funds, may boost its private-equity investments by around 40 percent as slumping markets create some acquisition bargains. Calpers&#8217; board next week is scheduled to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3491,4439,6713,10570,10573,10567,10517,12745,10569,12746,8419,10572,2155,1145,4326,4545,353,247,430],"class_list":["post-10768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-acquisition","tag-assets","tag-bargains","tag-california-public-employees","tag-california-public-employees-retirement","tag-california-public-employees-retirement-system","tag-calpers","tag-corporate-buyout","tag-employees-retirement-system","tag-mckinley","tag-private-equity-investments","tag-public-employees-retirement","tag-public-employees-retirement-system","tag-public-pension-funds","tag-reuters","tag-spokesman","tag-stocks","tag-target","tag-venture-capital-investments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}