MLC Asset Management has made three appointments to its New York-based private equity team. : Laura Hotaling joined as portfolio manager from New York State Teachers' Retirement System (NYSTRS) where she was chief risk officer. She previously spent eight years as a portfolio manager responsible for NYSTRS' international private equity investments. Hotaling was also an equity analyst at Paradigm Capital Management and an associate at LGT Capital Partners. Alicia Chen has been appointed as a senior associate. She was a private equity associate at AMERRA Capital Management and previously worked at UAW Medical Benefit Trust.