Damschroder: Stand your ground to move pension policy John Damschroder The 100 percent loss of a $525 million direct investment in Panda Power by the State Teachers Retirement System is not the end of the story. Five STRS alternative investment funds; Ares Capital, Avenue Capital, GSO Capital, HIG Capital and Oaktree Capital, with a combined total of $1,140,969,501 from Ohio teachers retirement money also invested in the bankrupt merchant power generator Panda. STRS says, “to our knowledge none of the funds in which we are invested with these managers have exposure in Panda.” But because these funds have been given trade secret protection by STRS, the teachers’ pension has no knowledge of what has been purchased with their dollars. It’s the way Ohio’s pensions structure their alternative investments.