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School Employees Retirement System of Ohio (OHSERS)

The School Employees Retirement System of Ohio (SERS) was established in 1937 with the mission to provide its membership with valuable lifetime pension benefit programs and services. SERS is a defined benefit public pension plan. This means that SERS provides a specific, lifetime pension benefit based on a member’s age, amount of service credit, and average of the member’s highest three years of salary

Country

United States

AUM ($B, AS AT DATE OF ASSET ALLOCATION)

$18

Performance (%, 1YR)

-0.5

Chief Executive

Richard Stensrud

Chief Investment Officer

Farouki A. Majeed

Chair

Frank Weglarz

Asset allocation

40.4% Global Equities

13.2% Global Private Equity

12.8% Global Fixed Income

6.3% Global Private Credit

20.3% Global Real Assets

3.9% Cash Equivalents

3.1% Opportunitic & Tactical

Website

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Asset allocation as of June 30, 2022. All information is as per the most recent annual report or other publicly available data via the fund's website

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