Fair-Value Measure Truer Picture of Public Pension Costs
May 5, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – An Issue Brief from the Congressional Budget Office suggests that the fair-value approach for measuring...
Tag: Public Pension
SURVEY SAYS: Which Would Your Workforce Most Prefer – DB or DC?
May 5, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Gary Findlay’s column earlier this week triggered a couple of interesting comments – and a...
Opinions |
Where’s the Alpha?
May 4, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In funding public sector defined benefit plans, the average assumed rate of return on assets...
Opinions |
Public Employee Retirement Plans and the Myth of the Risk-Free Rate
May 2, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For a few years now, with increasing intensity over the past couple of years, there...
Benefits |
Decreased Employer Contributions to Pensions Removed from Ohio Bill
April 29, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The proposed Ohio state budget bill no longer includes language that would set the pension...
Benefits |
OK Pension Commission Recommends Nixing Unfunded COLAs
April 29, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Oklahoma State Pension Commission approved a recommendation that legislators not grant cost-of-living adjustments for...
CalPERS Makes Investment, Takes Stake in Emerging Managers
April 27, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has committed a total of...
CalPERS Commits $400M to Emerging Managers
April 27, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has committed a total of $400 million to...
Group Says Report on State Retiree Benefit Funding Is “Flawed”
April 26, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems (NCPERS) says a new analysis from the...
Report Indicates $1.26T Funding Gap for State Retiree Obligations
April 26, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new report contends the gap between the promises states made for employees’ retirement benefits...
Survey Finds Public Pensions Generally Healthy
April 26, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Public pension funds are reporting strong investment returns, growing assets and more than adequate funding...
Benefits |
CT Lawmakers to Look into Pension Spiking by State Employees
April 26, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Connecticut Senate Appropriations Committee has approved legislation requiring the Program Review and Investigations Committee...
Institutional Investors See Modest Gains in Q1 2011
April 25, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plans in the Northern Trust Universe advanced 3.6% at the median in the first quarter...
Benefits |
KRS Puts Staff Salaries Online
April 22, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Another public retirement system has brought its salary records online.
Public Pensions in Recovery
April 21, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At the end of calendar year 2010, aggregate state and local government retirement system assets...
Detroit Pension Boards Challenge New Emergency Powers Law
April 20, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Detroit workers’ pension boards have asked a court to declare unconstitutional a new law allowing state-appointed...
Benefits |
CalPERS Adopts Priorities for DB Plans
April 18, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) Board of Administration recently adopted a 12-point set...
Former NY Comptroller Gets Jail – and a Pension?
April 15, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Former New York state Comptroller Alan Hevesi was sentenced today, after pleading...
States Must Face the Truth about Pensions to Fix Debts
April 15, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Witnesses speaking before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform say current pension...
Governors Say Pension Reform an Answer to Government Debt
April 15, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In a hearing this week before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,...