TRSL approves $75m commitment to Torchlight Debt Opportunity Fund VI

The US public pension has backed a North America-focused real estate fund.

Institution: Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana
Headquarters: Baton Rouge, United States
AUM: $20.11bn
Allocation to alternatives: 33.0%
Bitesize: $50-100m

Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana (TRSL) has agreed to commit up to $75 million to Torchlight Debt Opportunity Fund VI, a contact at the pension informed PERE.

The $20.11 billion US public pension has a 10.0 percent target allocation to real estate which currently stands at 9.0 percent.

TRSL has made four commitments to real estate funds with a 2018 or 2019 vintage, which combined constitute $225 million.

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