Total Fund Investment Returns

As of March 31, 2023

The Board has established a long-term objective to achieve a total investment return of at least 7.3% per year and a real rate of return of at least 5.3% per year.  The real rate of return is the rate by which the long-term total return exceeds the inflation rate. 

The Systems' investment return of -3.7% for the one-year period ended March 31, 2023 is less than the long-term objective as a result of recent global equity market weakness but substantially outperformed the policy benchmark return of -5.2%.

The Systems have produced significant absolute and relative returns for all extended time periods reported.  Additionally, over long periods of time, PSRS and PEERS continue to produce investment returns that meet or exceed the Systems' objective. The annualized investment return over the last 30 years is 7.7%.

* Effective July 1, 2013 all assets are held in the Missouri Education Pension Trust (MEPT) for the exclusive benefit of the Public School and Education Employee Retirement Systems of Missouri.

** The Policy Benchmark is comprised of 39.8% Russell 3000 Index, 22.2% MSCI ACWI ex-USA Index, 18% Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Treasury, 11% NCREIF Open End Diversified Core Equity Index, 6% Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Intermediate Credit Index, and 3% ICE BofAML U.S. High Yield Master II Index.

*** The Retirement Systems’ 2023 Fiscal Year began on July 1, 2022.