With the close of Fiscal 2012 just a few weeks ago, the New Hampshire Retirement System has released preliminary investment return data. Though the final numbers still need to be crunched, in particular, the difficult to value real estate and private equity holdings, the initial investment return estimate is .7%
The assumed rate of return is [...]

The recently released investment return figures from the third quarter show that while the New Hampshire Retirement System investment fund saw a 8.4% return in the corpus’s investments, beating the benchmark, the fund has only seen returns of just under 3% so far for the year, falling short of the 7.75% assumed rate of return.

The domestic equity portfolio, saw a 12.2% return, though falling short of the benchmark of 12.9%. Non-US equity saw 13.2%, which beat its benchmark by 2 points. Fixed income assets also did well, seeing a 2.5% return versus a .9% benchmark.