Awww... Largest US Pension Fund Suffers Worst Annual Return Since Financial Crisis Due To Heavy Stock Losses, Awww...

While we have often documented the dramatic underperformance by the hedge fund industry over the past decade courtesy of a centrally-planned market in which it no longer pays to "hedge", culminating with countless hedge fund closures and substantial redemptions (mostly by now redundant Fund of Funds managers), today we learn that "vanilla" asset managers were also hurt over the past year in which the S&P went nowhere, and not just in Japan where the gargantuan, $1.4 trillion GPIF recently suffered major losses, but in the US as well.

Awww... Largest US Pension Fund Suffers Worst Annual Return Since Financial Crisis Due To Heavy Stock Losses, Awww... Calpers_0

Awww... Largest US Pension Fund Suffers Worst Annual Return Since Financial Crisis Due To Heavy Stock Losses, Awww... Calpers_0

Case in point: Calpers, the largest U.S. public pension fund which as the WSJ reports posted its lowest annual gain since the last financial crisis due to heavy losses in stocks.

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, or Calpers, said it earned 0.6% on its investments for the fiscal year ended June 30, according to a Monday news release, barely turning a profit fro the full year. The last time Calpers lost money was during fiscal 2009 when the fund’s holdings fell 24.8%.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-18/largest-us-pension-fund-suffers-worst-annual-return-financial-crisis-due-heavy-stock

Awww... Largest US Pension Fund Suffers Worst Annual Return Since Financial Crisis Due To Heavy Stock Losses, Awww...

Awww... Largest US Pension Fund Suffers Worst Annual Return Since Financial Crisis Due To Heavy Stock Losses, Awww...

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