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.