School Employees Retirement System of Ohio (Ohio SERS) is investing $15m (€13.9m) in US cold storage assets alongside CBRE Investment Management’s open-ended core US real estate fund.

The pension fund said in a meeting document that set up the CBRE Storage Etc vehicle to invest alongside the CBRE US Core Partners fund.

Ohio SERS told Âé¶¹Ó³»­ Real Assets that the investment is being managed as a separate account relationship.

CBRE IM declined a request for comment.

Ohio SERS expects the CBRE Storage Etc vehicle to generate around 9% gross internal rate of returns on a 10-year basis.

According to SEC filing earlier this year, the CBRE US Core Partners fund had a total value of $6.35bn.

The open-ended fund invests in a mixture of logistics, residential, life science, self-storage and student housing assets.

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