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Public Plans Top Performers as Corporate Plans Continue to Lag: BNY Mellon Report
Traders Magazine Online News, November 13, 2018
The BNY Mellon U.S. Master Trust Universe returned a median 2.22% in the third quarter of 2018, maintaining positive performance for a second consecutive quarter.
The BNY Mellon U.S. Master Trust Universe offers peer comparisons of performance by plan type and size. It consists of 534 corporate, foundation, endowment, public, Taft-Hartley, and health care plans with a total market value of more than $2.2 trillion and an average plan size of over $7.0 billion. In aggregate, U.S. Master Trust Universe plans reported a one-year return of +6.33%, lagging its 3-year annualized return of +9.15% and 5-year annualized return of +7.69%.
Continuing the trend from the first and second quarters, corporate and health care plans underperformed, with quarterly returns of 200bp, and 219bp respectively.
“Public Plans benefited from higher allocations to US Equities and lower allocations to U.S. fixed income investments versus other plan types. They overweighted US Equity at a 27% allocation versus 24% for the Master Trust Universe as a whole, and underweighted U.S. fixed income at 24% versus 28% for the whole,” said Frances Barney, CFA, Head of Asset Owner Product Management and Global Risk Solutions at BNY Mellon.
“U.S. Equity was the top performing asset class with double-digit gains over the one-year period (+16.19%), followed by Real Estate continuing its run of positive annual returns (+8.79%) followed by Non-US Equity (+2.73%).” she added.
Additional Q2 Highlights
- Over 99% of plans posted positive results during the quarter.
- Taft-Hartley’s saw the highest median return (+2.56%), followed by Publics (+2.49%).
- U.S. equities posted a quarterly median return of 6.17%, versus the Russell 3000 Index return of +7.12%. Non-U.S. equities saw a median return of 0.70%, compared to the Russell Developed ex U.S. Large Cap Index result of 1.23%. U.S. fixed income had a median return of 0.27%, versus the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index return of 0.02%. Non-U.S. fixed income had a median return of 0.62%, versus the FTSE World Government Bond Non-US Index return of -2.19%. Real estate had a median return of +1.96%, versus the NCREIF Property Index result of +1.67%.
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BNY Mellon U.S. Master Trust Universe Median Plan Returns*
Period Ending September 30, 2018 |
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Universe |
Number of Participants |
3Q 2018 |
One- Year |
Five- Years |
Ten-Years |
Master Trust Total Fund |
534 |
2.22 |
6.33 |
7.28 |
7.69 |
Corporate Plans |
249 |
2.00 |
4.65 |
7.19 |
7.77 |
Foundations |
75 |
2.32 |
6.94 |
7.14 |
7.38 |
Endowments |
74 |
2.26 |
7.55 |
7.39 |
7.54 |
Public Plans |
87 |
2.49 |
7.89 |
7.73 |
7.94 |
Taft-Hartley Plans |
23 |
2.56 |
6.92 |
7.03 |
7.54 |
Health Care Plans |
22 |
2.19 |
5.34 |
6.35 |
7.65 |
*All returns are posted gross of fee results.
BNY Mellon U.S. Asset Allocation Medians (of those invested) by Asset Class
Period Ending June 30, 2018
Asset Class |
One Year Ago |
Three Years Ago |
|
Q3 2018 |
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US Equity |
23% |
23% |
23% |
Non-US Equity |
14% |
17% |
15% |
Global Equity |
5% |
5% |
5% |
US Fixed Income |
21% |
20% |
21% |
Global Fixed Income |
3% |
3% |
3% |
Non-US Fixed Income |
2% |
2% |
2% |
TIPS/Inflation Linked Bonds |
3% |
3% |
3% |
Real Estate |
5% |
5% |
5% |
Private Equity |
9% |
8% |
8% |
Other Real Assets |
3% |
3% |
3% |
Hedge Funds |
12% |
14% |
15% |
Cash |
2% |
2% |
2% |
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