Deals and People July 9, 2001

Hayes Takes AIM at CalPERS

July 9, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? Richard Hayes has been appointed Senior Investment Officer for the Alternative Investment Management program at California Public Employees? Retirement system (CalPERS), the largest US pension fund.
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Hayes will manage the fund?s diversified portfolio of private equity investments, which total about $20 billion in committed capital, of which $9 billion has been invested. Hayes will report to the System’s Chief Investment Officer, Daniel Szente.

Hayes replaces Barry Gonder, who will become a general partner with Grove Street Advisors, according to a CalPERS spokesperson. Gonder, who joined CalPERS in 1996, helped select Grove Street Advisors in 1998 to manage CalPERS’ California Emerging Ventures Program.

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Hayes has worked at CalPERS since May 1998 on many new private equity initiatives, including the group?s relationship with:

  • Thomas Weisel Partners
  • The Carlyle Group
  • Texas Pacific Group, and
  • CalPERS Biotechnology, Corporate Partners and California Initiatives Programs

He has a Bachelors degree in Economics from Stanford University and MBA from Harvard Business School, and was recently elected Chairman of the Institutional Limited Partners Association, a trade association for private equity investors.

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See Also A Conversation with CalSTRS CIO Christopher Ailman, as well as PART 2 ,

PART 3 and PART 4 .

And Editor-in-Chief Charlie Ruffel’s interview with CalPERS’ Mark Anson on Asset Allocation.

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