The fact that the stimulus bill separated its investments in high-speed rail from its allocations to Amtrak raises the question about how Amtrak will ultimately fit into the Obama Administration's eventual national rail policy, and whether the chronic under-investments in the Northeast Corridor operations Amtrak runs will be addressed quickly and adequately.
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Credit Suisse was an exception: it reduced its allocation to cash, and increased its exposure to equities, both by more than five percentage points.
The $112.5 billion Texas Teacher's Retirement System, for example, announced in September that it would increase its allocation to alternatives to 29percentt from 8.5percentt over the next three years.
The State Water Project, which delivers supplies to the Southland, has upped its allocation to 60% of requests, the highest it has been since 2012.
Instead, the pension fund opted to handle private equity in-house, increasing its allocation to as much as 10 percent.
The endowment aims to increase its cash position and to reduce its allocation to private equity and other funds that lock up money for significant periods of time.
In January of last year, the Town of Huntington increased its allocation to the Huntington Station Enrichment Center, which operates the "safe site," as it is called here, to $105,000 from $55,000.
Wilshire & Associates recently found that the average pension fund had increased its allocation to private equity to 8.8 percent in 2010 from 3 percent in 2000.
South Carolina is also increasing its allocation to private equity, which has historically generated higher returns than such traditional investments as stocks and bonds.
(One electoral vote in Nebraska, which also allows its allocation to be divided, is also included in this category, after Mr. Obama won it in 2008).
