BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION

Meeting Minutes

Federated Investment Committee

Thursday, March 12, 2026

11:00 AM

1737 North First Street, Suite 580, San

Jose, CA 95112

HYBRID MEETING

PHYSICAL LOCATION:

1737 North First Street, Suite 580, San Jose, CA 95112

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Anurag Chandra, Chair (Term Expires 11/30/26)

Matthew Faulkner, Trustee (Term Expires 11/30/27)

Deborah Abbott, Trustee (Term Expires 11/30/26)

John Flynn, CEO, Office of Retirement Services

Prabhu Palani, Chief Investment Officer

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The Federated Investment Committee met in person at the Office of Retirement Services,

1737 North First Street, Suite 580, San Jose, CA 95112 and via Zoom on Thursday,

March 12, 2026. The meeting was called to order at 11:04 a.m. by Chair Chandra

followed by a roll call.

Committee members present: Anurag Chandra, Matthew Faulkner and Deborah Abbott

Retirement Staff present: John Flynn, Prabhu Palani, Jay Kwon, Dhinesh

Ganapathiappan, Christina Wang, Arun Nallasivan, Ron Kumar, Harrison Pearce, Ryan

Reynado, Cynthia Ayala, Jennifer You, and Julie He.

Investment Staff via Zoom: David Aung

Also present in person: Eileen Neill, Verus Investments and Marc Gessell, Verus

Investments.

Also present via Zoom: Ron Dudonis, ACA Group, Laura Wirick, Meketa Investments

and Colin Kowalski, Meketa Investments.

ADA ALERT

In accordance with the requirements of AB 2449, the Board of Administration (“Board”)

will generally, upon request, provide appropriate aids and services leading to effective

communication for individuals with disabilities so they can participate equally in the

Board’s meetings, including qualified sign language interpreters, documents in Braille,

and other ways of making information and communications accessible to people who

have speech, hearing, vision or other disabilities.

Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication to

participate in a Board meeting should contact the designated contact in Office of

Retirement Services as far in advance of the scheduled meeting as possible. The Board

strongly encourages individuals with disabilities to endeavor to submit requests for

reasonable accommodation no later than five (5) business days before the scheduled

meeting, as the Board may not be able to grant requests for reasonable

accommodations without sufficient advance notice. The Board strongly encourages

individuals with disabilities to submit their written requests via email or regular mail to

facilitate tracking and response; however, if the submission of a written request

constitutes a hardship, individuals may call the Office of Retirement Services to submit

an oral request.

The designated contact in the Office of Retirement Services will endeavor to respond to

each request within three (3) business days of receipt of the request. Depending on the

request, the designated contact in the Office of Retirement Services may ask to

schedule a time to discuss the request (which may occur virtually) to determine the

most appropriate auxiliary aid or service, before the request is resolved.

ADA Designated Contact Information

Attention: Deputy Director/Chief Operations Officer, Office of Retirement Services

Address: 1737 N First St #600, San Jose, CA 95112

Email: #Retire_Admin@sanjoseca.gov Phone: 408-794-1000 (ORS Main Line)

THE LEVINE ACT

The Levine Act requires a Party in a Proceeding before the City of San José that

involves any action related to their contract, license, permit, or use entitlement to

disclose any campaign contributions to City elected or appointed officials totaling more

than $500 within the 12 months prior to the City decision. A Participant to a Proceeding

may voluntarily report a campaign contribution on the form located on the Levine Act

webpage.

SB 707 REMOTE APPEARANCE(S)

Take action on request(s) for remote appearance.

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CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL

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ORDERS OF THE DAY

1. CONSENT CALENDAR

Approval of minutes of the December 16, 2025 Federated Investment Committee meeting

A motion was made to approve the minutes of the December 16, 2025 Federated Committee

meeting.

Approved (m.s.c. Chandra/Faulkner 2-0)

Trustee Abbott did not vote since she was not at the December 16th meeting.

2. New Business

Oral Update by CIO, Prabhu Palani

CIO Palani discussed the agenda items for today's meeting.

Presentation of TCA and FX transaction cost analysis by ACA

Mr. Ron Dudonis, ACA Group, presented the results of the FX and equity trading transaction

costs analysis for fiscal year end 2025. For FX transaction costs, the results beat the peer

universe and benchmark resulting in a net savings. For the equity transaction cost, there was

higher than average execution costs. The higher costs were due to one manager, driven by

philosophy and execution, ACA Group recommends continued close monitoring of this

manager.

Discussion and action regarding the prefunding of the City’s retirement contribution.

Senior Investment Officer, Jay Kwon, presented the discussion on prefunding. This year, all

three criteria were met and triggered an additional cut to the discount rate offer to the City for

prefunding. Based on the methodology previously adopted, the discount rate would be

reduced by 30%.

A motion was made to approve the Staff recommendation of offering the City the pre funding

rate at a 30% discount resulting in a rate of 4.6375%.

Approved (m.s.c. Abbott/Faulkner 3-0)

Risk overview by Verus Investments

Mr.Marc Gessell from Verus Investments presented an update on the risk overview of the

Federated Plan. He expressed that the total risk rose slightly in the 4th Quarter. The total fund

risk of 12.19% is still within the board limit of 13%.

Nomination and Election of Investment Committee Vice Chair

A motion was made to nominate Deborah Abbott as the Vice Chair of the Federated

Investment Committee.