The Teachers’ Retirement System of Texas has made an additional private markets’ allocation totalling $685 million to range of funds including commitments to private equity, energy and natural resources, as well as a digital assets venture capital fund, according to a report by AlternativesWatch

The Ocean 14 Capital fund, which focuses exclusively on the multi-trillion-dollar ‘blue economy’, has received a commitment of €10 million from the  Constitutional Reserve Fund of Monaco to support its mission of funding sustainable solutions to improve ocean health.

The New York State Common Retirement Fund has become Growth Curve Capital’ latest Limited Partner (LP).

The Virginia Retirement System (VRS) has made a total of $3.2 billion in new investment allocations across credit strategies, private equity and real assets between mid-April and mid-August, according to a report by AlternativesWatch.

Asia-Pacific asset owners increased their overall alternative asset allocation between October 2021 and March 2022 from 15.3% to 21.5%, according to a report by AsianInvestor, but private equity allocations fell over the same period.

Teacher Retirement System (TRS) of Texas has made a commitment of $350 million to the fifth global infrastructure fund from Brookfield, which has a target size of $25 billion.

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments)  committed a minimum of $404 million to private equity investments in Asia in the second quarter of 2022, according to Deal Street Asia.

Softeq Development Corporation (Softeq), a Houston-based global hardware and software services development company serving Fortune 500 companies, has secured an additional commitment of $5 million to the Softeq Venture Fund from a new group of venture capital investors in New Hampshire, and created a new satellite venture studio.

The New York State Common Retirement Fund, currently the third largest pension fund in the United States with over $280 billion in assets, allocated over 75% of it $4 billion investment outlay in June to alternatives, according to a report by DailyAlts.