New Mexico state investments affected by market turbulence

April 4, 2016

Some of the Retirement and permanent investment funds’ managers from New Mexico are saying that they have been observing a balance recovery this month after a rather unfavorable start to the year.

NEW MEXICO STATE INVESTMENTS AFFECTED BY MARKET TURBULENCE:

The Public Employees Retirement Association and the Educational Retirement Board manages the funds that are associated with the lives of retirees very closely. The balance fell by around 750 million dollars in the start of the year and it looked highly unrealistic for the funds to meet the targets set last year of over 7 percent.
The Public Employees Retirement Association reported the balances to be down 5.5 percent for the starting 7 months of the fiscal year and the figure ended at 13.4 billion dollars. The association is responsible for managing the retirement savings of county and state employees, including judges, magistrates, firefighters, state lawmakers, police and volunteer firefighters.

Jonathan Grabel who is the Chief Investment officer said that the losses have been dawned upon them because of the change in the global markets. He said that there has been some challenges faced worldwide and that’s what led to the current situation. He mentioned the global economic showdown and the divergent rate tactics by the U.S. Federal Reserve and European Central Bank.
The assets’ value that was managed by the current council amazed everybody by rebounding from 19.2 billion to around 19.8 billion during last week, which is a substantial advancement.

There are other figures that show great promise related to these funds and it’s expected and hoped that they are only going to get better with each passing month. The managers and the administrators are doing their best to make sure that the output isn’t as grim as it was during the start of the year and we wish them the best.