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Tue, 07/27/2021 - 7:08pm Public equities accounting for 38 percent of the Alaska Permanent Fund’s investment portfolio generated returns of 47.1 percent in the first 11 months of the 2021 fiscal year that ended on June 30. The Fund finished the fiscal year with a value of $81.1 billion. (Photo/Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Daily News/TNS) The 2021 fiscal year results are in and the Permanent Fund is the big winner. Alaska’s primary revenue source ended June with a total value of nearly $81.1 billion after starting the year at $65.3 billion. The 24 percent growth in the Fund over the fiscal year was on the back of nearly unprecedented overall investment returns, which totaled 26.5 percent for the year through May 31, the most recent performance figures available from the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. ....
Tue, 07/27/2021 - 7:08pm Mum’s the word from Department of Natural Resources officials regarding their plan to fundamentally change the state’s water rights system. House Fisheries Committee chair Rep. Geran Tarr, D-Anchorage, said DNR representatives declined to attend a July 27 hearing on the agency’s proposed changes to in-stream flow reservations and other water regulations because she was told they are in a “quiet period” while they respond to public comments from the extended period that closed April 2. Tops among the changes first suggested by the Division of Mining, Land and Water in mid-January is adding new language to water reservation regulations stating that water reservation certificates currently issued to private parties would instead be held by DNR, which adjudicates water rights and reservation applications. ....
Tue, 07/27/2021 - 7:08pm Passengers are returning to the skies in levels approaching pre-pandemic numbers, but Alaska Air Group’s first profit in six quarters was based on a final round of federal payroll relief payments. (Photo/Tribune News Service) Alaska Airlines is back in the black, but not without significant help. The airline’s Seattle-based parent company, Alaska Air Group Inc., officially posted a $397 million profit in the second quarter that compares extremely favorably against the $214 million loss in the pandemic-restricted second quarter of 2020. The profit came after five consecutive quarters of losses that totaled nearly $1.5 billion. “The results we published this quarter show we are successfully rebuilding our company and returning to profitability,” CEO Ben Minicucci said in a July 22 earnings call. ....
Tue, 07/27/2021 - 7:07pm The gang of eight lawmakers tasked with breaking the ongoing deadlock over the state’s biggest fiscal decisions have gotten detailed Alaska history and finance lessons in recent meetings but have yet to directly confront the longstanding issues that continue to plague the state. The joint Comprehensive Fiscal Plan Working Group ramped up to near daily meetings in the week prior to the Aug. 2 start of the special session Gov. Mike Dunleavy called to solve Alaska’s structural fiscal imbalance and discussed the fundamental operations of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. as well as several existing proposals to revamp the Permanent Fund dividend. ....
Tue, 07/20/2021 - 5:43pm Greens Creek, the country’s largest silver mine located near Juneau, produced slightly less silver in the first half of 2021 even as prices rebounded from pandemic-induced lows. The company attributed the decline to lower grade ore processing. (Photo/Courtesy/Hecla Mining Co.) Production at the country’s largest silver mine was down to start the year despite strong metal prices due to processing lower-grade ore, according the mine’s owner. Idaho-based Hecla Mining Co., which owns the underground Greens Creek mine near Juneau, reported silver production of approximately 2.55 million ounces in the second quarter July 13. That was a decrease of 7 percent from a year ago. ....