Selected primary record
APERS Chief Investment Officer Email
The APERS chief investment officer's February 2026 account of Board preparation for the Israel Bonds decision.
- Agency
- Arkansas Public Employees Retirement System
- Date
- Original file
- IB_FOIA_FINAL. 2.27.2026 Redacted.LMG.pdf
- Page or location
- Physical PDF page 3,081; duplicate at page 3,084
- Published excerpt
- Campaign crop; direct contact information masked; quoted request omitted.
What the email says
During APERS’s search for responsive records, Chief Investment Officer Carlos Borromeo wrote, “I did not prepare anything for the Board on this topic,” and said he was certain the investment consultants had not prepared material either.
Borromeo’s statement makes the transparency problem concrete. The public-facing trail is a motion, operational correspondence, and a transaction record; a decision-focused memo would connect them to credit, return, liquidity, and alternatives.
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