The Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds
("CRPTF") posted net investment returns of 5.88 percent for the
State Employees' Retirement Fund and 5.85 percent for the Teachers'
Retirement Fund for the period ended June 30, 2019. The two funds
comprise more than 90 percent of the CRPTF.
Robust
performance results of 15.53 percent, 10.13 and 8.40 percent in the
Private Investment, Emerging Market Debt and Domestic Equity Funds,
respectively, boosted the overall CRPTF fiscal year end net asset
value to $36.0 billion, a $1.86 billion net increase from June 30,
2018 and a new all-time fiscal year end record. The CRPTF posted a
net investment return of 5.92 percent for Fiscal Year 2019.
Over the course of the fiscal year, the CRPTF made $880 million in
new commitments: Eight investment opportunities in the Private
Investment Fund totaling $590 million, and, four in the Real Estate
Fund totaling $290 million.
Additionally, the Office of the
Treasurer issued a Request for Proposals for Emerging Markets
International Stock Fund managers for the CRPTF; the search was near
completion at fiscal yearend.
The Connecticut Horizon Fund
("CHF"), an initiative to provide the Office access to a wider
number of women and minority-owned, Connecticut-based and emerging
investment management firms, has $1 billion in assets in its
fund-of-funds public market program, a $155 million private equity
allocation and a $170 million alternative investment allocation. As
of June 30, 2018, the public market program totaled 4 managers and
35 sub-managers. Emerging firms represented the largest allocation
of total assets at 69 percent; minority-owned firms represented 40
percent; women-owned firms followed with 29 percent; and
Connecticut-based firms were at 17 percent of total assets.*
Additionally, there were 3 private equity managers and 22
sub-managers; including 8 minority-owned, 4 emerging, 1 women-owned
and 9 Connecticut-based. In the separately managed Fund-of-Hedge
Fund mandate within the Alternative Investment Fund, there were 2
managers and 27 sub-managers; the breakdown includes 22 emerging
firms, 13 minority-owned firms, 7 Connecticut-based firms, and 6
women-owned firms.*
*Total exceeds 100 percent because
some investment firms are owned by individuals who represent more
than one demographic category..
Expansion of the
diversity of firms with which the Pension Funds Management division
does business continued during the Fiscal Year. Overall,
minority-owned, women-owned, Connecticut-based and emerging firms,
35 in all, comprised 26.3 percent of the firms with which the
division did business; these firms earned fees of approximately $40
million, representing more than 38 percent of all fees paid by the
division.
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