Blair County Employees' Retirement Fund Ends 2021 with a Strong Quarter

The Blair County Retirement Board, consisting of Commissioners Bruce Erb, Amy Webster and Laura Burke, along with Treasurer Jim Carothers and Controller A.C. Stickel, recently met with Pat Wing and Bill Torre of Marquette Associates, Inc. to review the Blair County Employee Retirement Fund’s Investment Performance Report for the fourth quarter of 2021.

The fund had an investment return of 5.2 percent for the quarter (net of investment management fees), outperforming its policy benchmark return of 4.7 percent. The performance placed the fund in the top 17 percent in a national database of...