1. The board shall set up and maintain a Missouri state employees’ retirement and benefit fund account in which shall be placed all payroll deductions, deferred compensation, payments, and income from all sources. All property, money, funds, investments, and rights which shall belong to, or be available for expenditure or use by, the system shall be dedicated to and held in trust for the members and for the purposes herein set out and no other. The board shall have power, in the name and on behalf of the system, to purchase, acquire, hold, invest, lend, lease, sell, assign, transfer, and dispose of all property, rights, and securities, and enter into written contracts, all as may be necessary or proper to carry out the purposes of sections 104.010 and 104.320 to 104.800.

2. All moneys received by or belonging to the system shall be paid to the executive director and deposited by the executive director to the credit of the system in one or more banks or trust companies. No such money shall be deposited in or be retained by any bank or trust company which does not have on deposit with and for the board at the time the kind and value of collateral required by sections 30.240 and 30.270 for depositaries of the state treasurer. The executive director shall be responsible for all funds, securities, and property belonging to the system, and shall give such corporate surety bond for the faithful handling of the same as the board shall require.

3. The board may invest the funds of the system as permitted by sections 105.686 to 105.690.