Kansas Public Employees Retirement System

The Kansas Legislature created the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System in 1962 to secure a financial foundation for those spending their careers in Kansas public service. The Retirement System provides disability and death benefits while employees are still working, and a dependable pension benefit when they retire.

Country

United States

AUM

$29

Performance (%, 1YR)

10.30

Chief Executive

Alan Conroy

Chief Investment Officer

Bruce Fink

Chair

Brad Stratton

Asset allocation

Based on target allocation

26% Domestic Equities

21% International Equities

14% Core Fixed Income

10% Non-Core Fixed Income

5% Real Assets

3% Short Term Investments

10% Real Estate

11% Alternatives

Website

View the annual report

Global Pension Transparency Benchmark country system description

Asset allocation as of June 30, 2025. All information is as per the most recent annual report or other publicly available data via the fund's website

Tackling sustainability in emerging markets

Emerging market investing and sustainable investing easily rank as two of the most substantiated of the many investment trends of the past decade. However, the two styles of investing are far from natural bedfellows. Christian Ragnartz, as chief investment officer of the $17-billion-plus Swedish pension fund AP7 – which has 13 per cent of its […]

Kansas PERS cuts global equities

The Kansas Public Employees Retirement System is slowly reducing its exposure to global equities as it explores “just about everything else”. Amanda White spoke with chief investment officer Robert ‘Vince’ Smith about the fund’s plans for 2010 which include an asset/liability study and the reorganisation of its equities allocations.