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City Pension Funds Profitable Only For Investment Advisors

By DAN ROSENBLUM
Posted 4/13/15

Even as the city’s pension funds almost doubled in value, private money managers “gobbled up” more than $2.5 billion of projected pension-fund gains over the last decade, according to an analysis released last week by City Comptroller Scott Stringer.

Though investment fees are commonplace, the billions that the funds’ managers charged over the years ate up the profits and ended up costing investors more money than they earned, he said.

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