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Kern County Employees Retirement Association

Public pensionmunicipal· California

Public pension, based in California, reporting $6.1B in assets, for 24,326 participants.

Composed from this allocator's classification, location and filed figures.

Assets
$6.1B
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As of · the latest dated event for this allocator; each figure carries its own filing or report date

Nothing material in the last 90 days. Last change: 30 Jun 2024, Kern County Employees Retirement Association total assets $5.4B -> $6.1B (+12.1%, 2023-06-30 to 2024-06-30).

6 more people and 2 more advisers

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People to know

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  • Daryn Miller
    Chief Investment Officer
    Why: Chief investment officer: owns the allocation decision
    No route on file yet
  • Dominic D. Brown, CPA, CFE
    Chief Executive Officer
    Why: Runs the firm (chief executive or president)
    No route on file yet

Capital path

who backs this record, through what, into what; each name opens its own path
Who decides
All 9
Kern County Employees Retirement Association

Relationship network

13 connected entities

From board minutes, annual reports, Form 5500 filings and public records of commitments, consultants and staff in the allocator graph. Commitment amounts are those the allocator disclosed; many are not printed, and none is estimated.

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Reading the network
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›How strength and recency are read

Managers, funds and consultants are read from the commitments: three or more is a strong observed relationship, two a repeat counterparty. No consultant link is marked current on the source, so none is labelled current or former here. Related plans, people and plan service providers are ordered by what the filing shows.

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Size, funding, policy and commitments, with their basesPublic pensionShow
Public pension
Assets
$6.1B
Total assets, Jun 30, 2024 reported
Funded
not on record
not filed
Private markets target
no policy read
policy Jun 30, 2025
Commitments
0
none on the tape

Allocation policy

ACFR, as of Jun 30, 2025
Actual allocation lines without a target (as filed)
  • Cash 0.6%
  • Hedge Funds 9.4%
  • Opportunistic 2.6%
  • Commodities 3.9%
  • Alpha Pool 2.5%
  • Core 10.5%
  • Domestic 17.9%
  • International Developed 11.8%
  • Midstream 4.9%
  • Credit 11.0%
  • Private Credit 6.3%
  • Private Equity 5.2%
  • Emerging Market 3.9%
  • Private Real Assets 3.9%
  • Core Real Estate 5.6%

Consultants and advisers

5 firms

+2 more consultants and advisers advise this allocator

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Decision makers

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  • Daryn Miller · Chief Investment Officer
    Why this person: Chief investment officer: owns the allocation decision; Named with investment responsibility
  • Dominic D. Brown, CPA, CFE · Chief Executive Officer
    Why this person: Runs the firm (chief executive or president)

Ranked by the role the firm or its filing states, a route on file and deals led. Every reason is read from the record, never inferred. Routes are published by the person or the firm (their bio, the team page or a filing) and are revealed on a plan; data bought from a provider is never shown, and a route printed at a firm the person has since left is held back.

People

9 roles
Chief investment officer
Daryn Miller
Chief Investment Officer (Sep 30, 2026) kcera.org
ovides leadership for the administration of all KCERA operations… Read more » Daryn Miller, CFA Position: Chief Investment Officer Mr. Miller is responsible for overseeing KCERA’s investment program,

+6 more people on the investment staff and board

Every name, title and published role at this allocator, with the page it was read from.

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Manager roster

No manager relationship is on the tape for this allocator.

What changed

1 event
  • Jun 30, 2024Assets changed
    Kern County Employees Retirement Association total assets $5.4B -> $6.1B (+12.1%, 2023-06-30 to 2024-06-30)
    www2.census.gov
Board record: approvals, recommendations, searches, terminations and re-up prospects for this system.

Commitments

No fund commitments are on the tape for this allocator. The tape holds the plans that publish their own private-markets reports; a plan that publishes one and is not here is a gap we can close.

Size and funding

57 readings
Total assets
$6.1B Jun 30, 2024 reported Census ASPP
$5.4B (2023-06) · $5.3B (2022-06)
Fiduciary net position
$5.9B Jun 30, 2024 reported Census ASPP
$5.4B (2023-06) · $5.1B (2022-06)
Long-term investments
$5.5B Jun 30, 2024 reported Census ASPP
$4.8B (2023-06) · $4.9B (2022-06)
Total pension liability
$2.4B Jun 30, 2024 reported Census ASPP
$2.5B (2023-06) · $2.4B (2022-06)
Discount rate
7.00% Jun 30, 2024 reported Census ASPP
7.00% (2023-06) · 7.25% (2022-06)
Participants
24,326 Jun 30, 2024 derived Census ASPP
23,104 (2023-06) · 22,106 (2022-06)
Active members
10,217 Jun 30, 2024 derived Census ASPP
9,557 (2023-06) · 9,076 (2022-06)
Beneficiaries
9,281 Jun 30, 2024 reported Census ASPP
9,156 (2023-06) · 9,015 (2022-06)
Benefits paid
$427M Jun 30, 2024 reported Census ASPP
$410M (2023-06) · $392M (2022-06)
Investment expense
$88.2M Jun 30, 2024 reported Census ASPP
$73.3M (2023-06) · $59.8M (2022-06)

Provenance

Identifiers: Census PID6 100624
Cross-graph: no entry on another DFX graph
First observed Sep 15, 2026, last observed Sep 23, 2026. Classification confirmed. Every row above carries its source; a reported figure is the subject’s own, a derived one is arithmetic on reported figures, an estimated one is a model or a survey imputation and is never summed into a headline.

Not yet on record: funded ratio, private markets allocation target, fund commitments.

Record history

1 dated event on the change ledger, latest event first
  • Total assets changed
    2024-06-30source on record

The ledger records every merge, rename and reclassification this record went through and the dated filings observed on it, so the identity on this page can be traced to the records it was built from. The ledger's own sentences name other records, so they show with the names.

›Connections

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+5 connections on the graph

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