Through the third quarter of 1996, the MIT Retirement Plan's variable fund experienced a return of 15.575 percent. By comparison, Standard & Poor's 500 Index advanced 13.49 percent during the same period. Fixed-fund member accounts have been credited with distributions of 6.39 percent for the first nine months of 1996.
A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on November 6, 1996.
