March 19 (Bloomberg) -- New Jersey’s public-pension fund, the12th-largest in the U.S., returned 10.7 percent in the first sevenmonths of the fiscal year as stocks surged.
The fund, with a market value of $76.5 billion, reported todaythat global-growth assets performed best, gaining 15.1 percent fromJuly 1 to Feb. 28. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index of U.S.stocks rose 30 percent in 2013, ending the year at an all-timehigh.
New Jersey’s pension, with 769,000 active and retired employees,gained 2.67 percent for February and 12.8 percent in the calendaryear. The data exclude a fund for police and firefighter mortgagesthat’s reported on a lagging basis. Returns for commodities,Treasuries and Treasury inflation- protected bonds, or TIPS,disappointed, according to a report from the state Treasury’sinvestment division.
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