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Byline: Joseph N. DiStefano
Dec. 11--The man in charge of Pennsylvania's biggest pot of public investment dollars is leaving for the private sector.
John C. Lane confirmed Harrisburg rumors yesterday that he has resigned, effective Dec. 20, as chief investment officer of the Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System. He's heading to Rochester, N.Y., to run Eastman Kodak Co.'s $13 billion pension fund.
"The time is right for me. I'm 46. If I'm going to make a change, I want to make it now" before his two young children start school, Lane said. The retirement system's board will meet next month to begin work on choosing a successor.
Lane served 12 years under Govs. Tom Ridge and Robert P. Casey. On his watch, the system -- which pays pensions to 100,000 retirees and builds them for 200,000 active workers -- has tripled its assets to $50 billion, thanks both to the 1990s bull market and to $1 billion a year in subsidies from taxpayers and contributions from teachers.