NYC Comptroller Introduces New Transparency Dashboard to View Pension Fund Assets and Performance

New York, NY – New York City Comptroller Brad Lander unveiled today a new interactive website that allows pension beneficiaries and the public to view asset allocation and performance for the City’s five public pension funds which guarantee retirement security for city workers. Together, the New York City Employees’ Retirement System, Teachers’ Retirement System, Police Pension Fund, Fire Department Pension Fund, and Board of Education Retirement System have approximately $242 billion in assets under management across all asset classes as of August 31, 2022.

“The New York City Retirement System invests pension money to ensure the long-term financial security for city workers who have dedicated themselves to public service. City workers, retirees and members of the public should have access to information about where those investments are made and how they are doing. Increasing transparency around the assets that the Comptroller’s office manages on behalf of the New York City Retirement Systems is a critical part of our work to guarantee that these funds will be there for public sector retirees for years to come,” said Comptroller Brad Lander.

The new asset allocation landing page provides an easy-to-navigate and interactive look at investments by manager, asset class, and asset type, with the value of each investment current as of August 31, 2022 and dating back to 2018. The asset performance dashboard, on a separate page, includes performance data by fund and asset class from FY 2022 going back to FY 2018.

The Comptroller is the custodian, fiduciary, and delegated investment adviser to the five New York City pension funds, which serve more than 800,000 current and former city workers. Each board is governed by a separate Board of Trustees, which include representatives from the Mayor, Comptroller, relevant unions, other elected officials, and, in the case of the Board of Education Retirement Systems, the members of the Panel for Education Policy. These Trustees, working with the Bureau of Asset Management and the Board’s consultants, make decisions on the funds’ asset allocations based on factors including economic risk, return, performance, and beneficiary distributions. All investment decisions are voted on by the relevant Trustees.

View the asset allocation dashboard here.

View the asset performance dashboard here.

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