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Article: CalSTRS might get bit by buyouts; Private equity portfolio's value could fall by 33%.
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- Pensions & Investments
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- April 20, 2009
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Byline: Arleen Jacobius
CalSTRS' $17.1 billion private equity portfolio could lose at least a third of its value because three-quarters of its investment is in buyouts, insiders say.
Like several other large institutional investors, the $114 billion California State Teachers' Retirement System, Sacramento, favors buyouts. In fact, the fund had 73.9% of its private equity portfolio in buyouts, with 33% of the overall portfolio with just five megabuyout firms, according to a semiannual private equity performance report released April 1.
The five firms Texas Pacific Group, Blackstone Group, First Reserve, CVC Capital Partners and Welsh, Carson ...