Oklahoma Teachers’ Retirement System has approved a $100m (€91.5m) commitment to a value-add and opportunistic real estate secondaries fund managed by Landmark Partners, an Ares company.

Oklahoma Teachers told Âé¶¹Ó³»­ Real Assets that the commitment, subject to pending contract negotiations, has been made to the Landmark Real Estate Partners IX.

As previously reported, Landmark Partners seeks to raise $3.5bn for Partners IX to make secondary investments in various types of real estate and real estate-related entities, including taking limited partnership positions in existing funds. 

The pension fund said Landmark has now raised $2.5bn for Partners IX, inclusive of the fund’s co-investment vehicle. The fund has made total commitments of $328.2m into eight transactions for the fund.

According to sources, Partners IX targets a 15% net return.

Âé¶¹Ó³»­ Real Assets also reported that Oklahoma Teachers expected to invest $300m in total through a number of non-core fund commitments in 2023 as part of the pension fund’s real estate pacing for the period.   

Oklahoma Teachers has already placed a $100m commitment each into the Oaktree Real Estate Opportunities Fund IX and the EQT Exeter Industrial Value Fund VI funds. 

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