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Texas Teachers CIO Jase Auby on oil, energy investing amid rising prices

Auby is watching geopolitics, amid headlines this past week that Iran is planning an imminent attack on Israel, which could widen the war in the Middle East. read more

Texas Teachers commits $75m to invest in real estate fund managers

Teacher Retirement System of Texas is committing $75m (€69.4m) to a fund that will invest in real estate fund managers, according to the pension fund. read more

Texas' decision to pull $8.5B from BlackRock driven by profits, not anti-ESG law

Several large Texas pension and investment funds — including the Teacher Retirement System — have divested their direct shares of BlackRock to comply with the law. But they still allow the ... read more

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Statement on Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)-Care Letter to Support Board Action

Houston, sent a letter to TRS Board Chairman Jarvis Hollingsworth urging the TRS Board to lower insurance premiums for Medicare-eligible participants in TRS-Care Medicare Advantage and implement a one ... read more

2 ETFs, including one on Texas divestment list, to drop ESG from names

State governmental entities subject to the investment prohibitions and divestment requirements include the $187.1 billion Texas Teacher Retirement System and the $36.2 billion Texas Employees ... read more

Opposition to ESG gains clout to force banks to change, but they may not be giving up easily

Transition investing is specific and concrete. ESG as a category is a vague grab bag for many clients,” Mark Wiedman, head of global client business at BlackRock said. But most investors just want ROI ... read more

Real Estate Roundup: Teacher Retirement System buys second building for its new HQ in Mueller

The Teacher Retirement System of Texas has purchased a second building in the Mueller Business District, the final piece of a multiyear effort to relocate its headquarters out of downtown. read more

Longview ISD superintendent search draws 'impressive' candidates; list down to 5

Longview ISD trustees got their first glimpse this week of the pool of candidates to replace outgoing Superintendent James Wilcox. read more

4 Texas agencies detail how they’re already using artificial intelligence

the Texas Workforce Commission and the Teacher Retirement System of Texas. State Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, R-Southlake, serves as co-chair of the advisory council and told KXAN the witnesses were ... read more

Hundreds of Corpus Christi ISD teachers earn pay boost based on student growth

After two years of data collection and validation, 305 Corpus Christi ISD teachers learned they earned an state incentive allotment. read more

Texas lawmakers and agency leaders experiment, ponder policies for an AI future

The Texas Public Policy Foundation ... the Workforce Commission and the Teacher Retirement System. Department of Information Resources privacy attorney Jennie Hoelscher told the council that ... read more

Dividends on Offense

The DIVIDEND YIELD (and implied in this is not merely the starting yield but the growth of dividends paid year by year as well)… Let’s revisit something about index investing versus our chosen path of ... read more