For the 100 largest public-employee retirement systems in the country, total holdings and investments ended their year-long rise with the first quarter-to-quarter decline since the first quarter of 2009, with a decrease of 5.6 percent from $2,489.8 billion in the first quarter of 2010 to $2,349.8 billion in the second quarter of 2010. However, total holdings and investments still exceeded the same quarter one year ago, with an increase of 6.8 percent from $2,199.4 billion in the second quarter of 2009.