Tennessee Retirement System Update

    Friday, October 16, 2026 at 4:35 AM

    By News Staff

    The Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System closed out the 2026 fiscal year with a robust 14.18% investment return, significantly outperforming the plan’s 6.75% assumed rate of return.

    These favorable returns helped increase the value of the portfolio by $7.6 billion in a single year, bringing the total value of the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System portfolio to $83.4 billion as of June 30th, 2026.

    Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System is the defined benefit pension plan serving over 400,000 active and retired state, higher education, and participating local government employees, as well as K-12 public teachers. The state pension provides a lifetime retirement, and survivor and disability benefits, for employees and their beneficiaries. 

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