The State of New York, through the New York State Deferred Compensation Board, is seeking formal written proposals from financial organizations to provide Active Intermediate Aggregate Fixed Income and Active Short Duration Fixed Income investment management services as detailed below:

• Active Intermediate Core Fixed Income benchmarked to the Bloomberg Intermediate Aggregate Index
• Active Short Duration Fixed Income benchmarked to the Bloomberg 1-3 Year Government/Credit Index or the Bloomberg 1-3 Year Government Index

One or more financial organizations may be selected for purposes of investing a portion of the New York State Deferred Compensation Plan’s Stable Income Fund in the above fixed income strategies. Assets will be held in the Stable Income Fund’s custodial account and will be wrapped by a benefit responsive contract that is selected separately by the Stable Income Fund structure manager, GSAM Stable Value, LLC.

To be eligible for selection, the financial organization must be an organization duly authorized to do business in the State of New York, and be (i) a registered investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended, or (ii) a bank, as defined in that Act; or (iii) an insurance company qualified under the laws of more than one state to manage, acquire or dispose of assets of plans which meet the requirements for qualification under the Internal Revenue Code, governmental plans and eligible state deferred compensation plans.

Deadline for RFP questions: Nov. 17, 2023

RFP submission due date: Dec. 15, 2023