NEW MEXICO ED ASSIGNS $430 MILLION.

The board committed $100 million to Banner Ridge Secondary Fund IV, a private equity fund investing on the secondary markets. It also committed $60 million each to BlackRock Tactical Opportunities Fund, a private equity separately managed account-type vehicle; Edison X, a growth equity fund managed by Edison Partners; and NovaQuest II, a middle-market life science and health-care fund managed by NovaQuest Capital Management. New Mexico Educational Retirement Board, Santa Fe, committed a total of $430 million to eight alternative investment vehicles, said Bob Jacksha, CIO for the $14.5 billion pension fund, in an email. [Extracted from the article]