Kansas Public Employees Retirement System provides retirement benefit plans for state and local public employees of the state of Kansas. Kansas Public Employees Retirement System was formed in 1962 and is headquartered in Topeka, Kansas. The fund engages in the following alternative investment strategies: growth equity, buyouts, corporate finance, distressed debt, turnarounds, international private equity, limited partnership secondaries, mezzanine, and venture capital. It seeks to invest in energy, oil and gas, and natural resources.