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Auby: Texas leads the nation in oil, gas, solar, wind, and batteries
“Texas is number one in pretty much every form of energy you can name. So number one in oil, number one in gas, number one in solar, number one in wind, number one in batteries. I just read the other day.”
Auby: Office buildings make up only 21% of commercial real estate
“Everyone still thinks of office buildings, but office buildings is last I saw just 21% of the commercial real estate market.”
Texas Teachers has graduated only 12 of 190 emerging managers
“Of those 180 managers that we funded, we've had 12 graduate to full-fledged allocations in the portfolio.”
Auby: Texas has the longest US teacher pension liability at 26 years
“Texas has the longest liability of any teacher fund in the United States, and that's because Texas is a high-growth state, so we're hiring a lot of teachers, so we have a lot of younger teachers, and so our liability is amongst the longest, 26 years.”
Texas Teachers lost 25% of its staff during the Great Resignation
“In 21 and 22 combined, those two years, we lost 25% of our staff, which was one in four folks walked down the door, the great resignation.”
Auby: Industrial makes up 34% of the ODCE real estate index
“In fact, and the most commonly used core index, the Odyssey industrial, which Amazon warehouses, that sort of thing is 34% of the index is the largest part of the index.”