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Gov. Pritzker has appointed Richard Figueroa, Jamie-Clare Flaherty and John Lyons to the State Universities Retirement System (SURS) Board of Trustees.

Figueroa, of Chicago, is the chief investment officer of Barrett-Lo Visionary Development. Before joining Barrett-Lo, he was the chief operating officer of Janko Group, the director of capital markets for the Opus Group and served as the director of acquisitions for Mansur & Company. Figueroa has a bachelor's degree from Yale University, a master’s degree in public policy and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

The State Universities Retirement System of Illinois (SURS) requests proposals from qualified firms to provide alternative risk premia investment management services. SURS is issuing the RFP for due diligence purposes, to ensure its receipt of quality services in a cost-effective manner.

The State Universities Retirement System of Illinois (SURS) requests proposals from qualified firms to provide systematic trend following investment management services. SURS is issuing the RFP for due diligence purposes, to ensure its receipt of quality services in a cost-effective manner.

SURS has learned that many of our members recently received a letter from the Illinois Policy Institute (IPI) urging them to end their automatic deductions for union dues and/or dues to retirement organizations.

This letter was sent without SURS knowledge or consent. SURS does not support this effort by the IPI or approve of any actions meant to dissuade our annuitants from joining or backing organizations of their choice.

The State Universities Retirement System (SURS) is soliciting proposals from qualified firms to provide office furniture and related design, delivery and installation services for a newly-renovated work space. Specifically, we are looking for a firm to collaborate with SURS to finalize the layout and configuration of cubicles and/or case goods for three (3) different departments using a tentative layout provided by SURS. The vendor will also provide furniture for private offices, a break room, and other multi-purpose meeting areas.

The State Universities Retirement System (SURS) is soliciting proposals from qualified firms to provide a complete and operational low voltage network (also referred to as “structured network cabling system”). This includes labor, materials, transportation, equipment, and miscellaneous services required to accomplish this result for a newly-renovated work space located at 1801 Fox Drive, Champaign, IL.

The February Advocate is now available online, featuring articles on the two new buyout options, the FY 2018 annual report, 2019 educational webinars and seminars, investments, legislation, SURS employee of the year, 1099-R forms and much more. www.surs.org/advocate

Callan, on behalf of the State Universities Retirement System (SURS), is requesting information from qualified firms interested in providing real asset investment services, which are limited to private real estate and infrastructure. All information and required documents are available on Callan’s website (www.callan.com) and on the SURS website (www.surs.org).

SURS has been made aware of a spam messaging campaign that looks to have originated from one of our accounts – security@surs.org. Please be aware that these messages are not authentic. Our information security team has taken the necessary steps to remedy the situation.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

The State Universities Retirement System (SURS) has issued this Request for Proposal (RFP) to procure full service recordkeeping, custodial, and investment services for the Self-Managed Plan ("SMP"), an IRC Section 401(a) retirement plan, and a new supplemental plan under IRC Section 457(b) ("Supplemental Plan").

SURS is seeking to redesign the SMP to help better enable participants to maintain their standard of living in retirement. SURS is launching the Supplemental Plan to provide members with the tools they need to address any retirement readiness gaps.