State of Wisconsin Investment Board approves $50m commitment

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Institution: State of Wisconsin Investment Board
Headquarters: Madison, United States
AUM: $122.22bn
Allocation to alternatives: 18.20%
Bitesize: $50-100m

State of Wisconsin Investment Board has made a commitment of $50 million to Warwick Partners IV, according to the pension’s latest quarterly report.

This is the first commitment made by Wisconsin to an infrastructure fund in four years. The previous infrastructure commitment was to 2015-vintage ISQ Cube Hydro Co-Investment Fund.

As illustrated in the chart below, State of Wisconsin Investment Board has made only five commitments to infrastructure funds since 2013, which combined constitute $467.5 million.

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