"Manage": To invest, reinvest, exchange and to perform all investment functions with regard to reserves, funds, assets, securities and moneys which the board is authorized to invest, and to preserve and protect such reserves, funds, assets, securities and moneys, including, but not limited to, authority to vote any stocks, bonds or other securities and to give general or special proxies or powers of attorney with or without power of substitution, except that the authority to vote proxies is subject to Section 22A-113.4. This term shall not include any functions, duties and responsibilities incident to the operation and administration of pension funds or education fund other than that of investments.
40 ILCS 5/22A-106