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	<description>Public Funds Focus goes out to public pension funds, corporate pension plans, foundations and other industry professionals to highlight top issues in the space. Public Funds Focus, an online publication from Focus Point Press, covers regulatory, compliance and industry news from Washington- as well as developments related to trustees and municipal bonds and funds.</description>
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		<title>Pension Fund in Florida Replaces Small-Cap Value Manager</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Florida-based St. Petersburg Fire Pension Fund has awarded approximately $10 million to its new small-cap value manager.]]></description>
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		<title>Top-10 Pension Funds to Make 22 Tril. Won Alternative Investment This Year</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL, KOREA - The volume of alternative investment to be made by Korea's top-ten pension funds is estimated at around 22 trillion won, 73 percent higher than last year's. The Korea Economic Daily conducted a survey on chief investment managers of top-ten pension funds who will attend the 2013 Alternative Investment Summit Korea on May 14 and found out the estimated investment sum by the ten funds was 22.47 trillion won.]]></description>
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		<title>Somerville Retirement System Seeks First Executive Director</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Massachusetts-located Somerville Retirement Board will soon hire the Somerville Retirement System's first executive director.]]></description>
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		<title>Investment Consultant Search Launched by Pennsylvania Township</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pennsylvania’s Lower Salford Township is reportedly looking for an investment consultant for its Police and Non-Uniformed pension plans.]]></description>
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		<title>Tennessee Consolidated’s Private Equity Director Departs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tennessee’s $37 billion Consolidated Retirement System will soon replace its current director of private equity Lamar Villere, who will be stepping down.]]></description>
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		<title>Segal Rogerscasey Forms Alliance with Australian Consultant</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York-based Segal Rogerscasey and Australia-based consultant Frontier Advisors have established the Global Investment Research Alliance, which plans to share research on investment managers across global regions.]]></description>
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		<title>New York CRF Bets on Private Equity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 21:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While some pension funds have played it safe since the financial crisis, others have taken a more aggressive stance when it comes to investing. Many pension funds are allocating steadily to private equity, this asset class is said to be a staple of many large pension plans. One pension fund allocating a great deal to private equity this year is the New York State Common Retirement Fund.]]></description>
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		<title>Calif. Pension Hires Hedge Fund Manager AQR</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 21:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Institutional investor Sacramento County Employees' Retirement System has authorized a hedge fund investment, deploying approximately $66 million.]]></description>
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		<title>Ventura County Pension Makes Move Into MLPs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 15:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[California-based Ventura County Employees' Retirement Association has recruited its first master limited partnership manager.]]></description>
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		<title>NC Senate OKs more pension fund investment choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 15:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina lawmakers want to give state Treasurer Janet Cowell more flexibility in how to invest public employee pension funds. The Senate voted by a wide margin Monday to change the composition of alternative investments beyond stocks and bonds in the state retirement system portfolio, valued recently at $78 billion. ]]></description>
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