Welcome To The Largest Public Pension Private Equity Document Release In History!
- STRS Ohio Watchdogs
- Aug 18
- 1 min read
The Ohio Teachers pension was finally ordered to release records related to hundreds of its costliest, riskiest private investments. You're invited to review the once-secret documents.
By Edward Siedle
Aug 18, 2025
This May, the Court of Appeals of Ohio handed us a decisive victory in our longstanding battle for public access to investment documents related to over 100 investment firms managing tens of billions in more than 400 private funds for the ultra-secretive State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio. While STRS elected not to appeal the Tenth District’s decision to the Ohio Supreme Court, the pension claimed that it was contractually required to notify each and every one of these investment managers of our public records victory and offer them the opportunity to assert any applicable exemptions under Ohio’s Sunshine Laws. Court order be damned—even after 5 years of litigation ending in victory, STRS said we still had to wait until each and every money manager had a chance to determine whether or not to provide the disclosure.
Months later, thankfully, our wait is now over. As indicated below, STRS has provided us with the first batch of its private investment documents, as approved by some of its money managers.
Read the full article at https://pensionwarriorsdwardsiedle.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-largest-public-pension
