Maryland’s State Retirement Agency has doubled its target allocation for real estate to 10 percent from five percent.
Acting chief strategist of the $37.5 billion (€24.3 billion) fund, John Greenberg, told PERE the increase followed a wider asset allocation study conducted on Maryland’s behalf. The amount of new capital available to real estate is likely to be between $1.7 billion and $2.2 billion.
The Maryland pension will also increase its private equity allocation to five percent from two percent, with up to $1.1 billion extra capital available for investments. There is currently no allocation to infrastructure but the fund would continue to “consider the class along with a host of other investments”, Greenberg said.
The strategist said the increases would take place as soon as possible, but stressed investments would be made on a “prudent” basis. He said: “We hope to achieve these increases the sooner the better but they will be done when it’s prudent.
“When we make asset allocations our decisions are based on the long-term outlook,” he added. As at the end of February, Maryland had a total real estate portfolio valued at $1.9 billion.
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