Pension allocates $300m for private real assets next year. : Iowa Public Employees Retirement System (IPERS) plans to accelerate its real estate investment programme next year. According to a board meeting report, the pension fund is allocating $300m (€265m) to private real assets in 2019, most of which will go to real estate investments. At the end of June 2018, the $32.2bn pension fund had $1.99bn invested in private real assets, representing 6% of its total assets.