JULY 16, 2018
MINNESOTA NEWS + OPINION
The
Heartland Institute
Minnesota has enacted some changes to the state's public pension programs. The new law, signed by Gov. Mark Dayton on May 31, will alter ...
MinnPost
Mark Dayton signed
a massive overhaul of Minnesota's pension system into law, the prominent ...
Easements ease pressure on state's water supply.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Mark Dayton signed
the pension bill into law Thursday. The legislation reduces the state's pension
fund liabilities and alleviates public workers' and ...
Brainerd Dispatch
Swanson: The
three-term Minnesota state attorney general said ... and that someday when they
retire they can have a pension and a dignified ...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer
Press
Unanimous
passage of a plan to help stabilize pensions
for Minnesota teachers,
firefighters and other public
workers earned recent praise in this ...
Reuters
Governors in
Colorado, Minnesota and Illinois were among those to sign legislation in 2018
that cut public employee retirement benefits, increased ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
In Minnesota, that
“fair share” is about 85 percent of full dues. ... For years it supported
candidates who put Illinois into its current budget and pension crisis ... Like
Janus, many of Minnesota's public employees object to union policies, ...
MinnPost
Pension reform
passed both the Minnesota House and Senate with overwhelming support. The bill
benefits 511,000 Minnesotans who dedicate their ...
NATIONAL NEWS + OPINION
Reason
...
of California's biggest problems: The unsustainability of public sector pensions. Instead of contracting fire services from unwieldy
Riverside County, ...
Truthout
Because these
gains haven't materialized, public pensions have lost hundreds of billions of
dollars over the past decade, and taxpayers have been ...
New York Daily News
DiNapoli on
Thursday ordered the divestment of the pension fund's direct ... “By investing
millions of dollars of our public pensions in private prisons, ...
Chief Investment Officer
The California
Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) reported a preliminary 8.6% net
return on its investments for fiscal 2017, growing the ...
New York Times
Why did the
raiders keep finding overstuffed pensions to exploit? ... harm's way, even
unintentionally, he thought, the public would eventually catch on, ...
Barron's
However, our
nation's public pensions, who are now the dominant global investor, are focused
on meeting their outsized return assumptions," notes ...
Los Angeles Times
... last week at
the biennial Libertarian Party National Convention, in New Orleans. ... biggest
problems: The unsustainability of public sector pensions.
Philly.com
When it comes to
saving for their retirement, Americans better hope they don't ... Public sector
pensions are either running out of money or are at risk.
Barron's
According to a
report from the Pew Charitable Trusts provided by Ryan ALM, public retirement
plans had a $1.4 trillion shortfall at the end of 2016, with ...
BenefitsPro
Returns on public
pensions have varied pretty widely between 2001–2016, and the Center for
Retirement Research at Boston College analyzed the ...
Wichita Eagle
Member of a
legislative committee are taking stock of mounting liabilities at New Mexico's
two major public pension funds in the wake of a downgrade ...
Truth in Accounting
Soon, they'll have
to cannibalize current workers' pension contributions to pay retirees. … These
reforms will help — but in all likelihood, the federal ...
Center for Retirement Research -
Boston College
Investment returns
for state and local pension plans varied over 2001-2016 from 6.3 percent for
the top quartile to 4.6 percent for the bottom.
DesMoinesRegister.com
A plan to transfer
part of Des Moines teachers' pensions into the Iowa Public Employees'
Retirement System this summer hit a snag that could derail ...
NorthJersey.com
The approach
mirrors that of other progressive states and cities. California's two massive
public pension funds have withdrawn investments from coal ...
Journal Inquirer
Some of the
Republican candidates for governor have declared themselves ready to confront
the state employee unions over their pensions, which ...
National Public Pension
Coalition
Representative
Nunes has reintroduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act. Learn how
this bill would harm public pensions.
Bond Buyer
New Jersey's
police officers and firefighters received control over their pension management
decisions. Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill Tuesday that ...
NorthJersey.com
Among the
unresolved issues are increasing costs for public employee pensions and health
benefits, which Sweeney has committed to addressing in ...
American Enterprise Institute
The Journal's
coverage of Americans' retirement prospects serves up .... Center for
Retirement Research's (CRR) “National Retirement Risk Index,” ...
Pensions & Investments
State and local
government defined benefit plan contributions totaled $200.5 billion in 2017,
up 4.6% from the previous year, according to the U.S. ...
Lexington Herald Leader
The whole episode
will mean a halt to more legislative attacks on pensions for the time being.
... That is resulting in big cuts to vital public services.
Forbes
Kentucky
Retirement Systems: A Case Study Of Politicizing Pensions ... the public into
believing that they were acting in the best interest of the people.
BenefitsPro
Reuters reports
that while Fitch says states including Colorado, Minnesota ... pension
liability that after years of skipped or inadequate annual state ...
CNBC
Jay Bowen, Bowen,
Hanes & Company chief investment officer, discusses pension reform and the
unfunded public pension liability crisis in the United ...
Reuters
NEW
YORK, June 28 (Reuters) - The 100 largest U.S. public employee pension
systems earned just $14.3
billion on their investments in the first ...
Wall Street Journal
Today, public DB
pensions are $3.7 trillion underwater, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
is on the rocks and some politicians are seeking a ...
Las Cruces Sun-News
Residents of New
Mexico awoke to bad news recently after the national credit ratings agency
Moody's downgraded the state's bond rating. The lower ...
CBS Denver
DENVER (AP) —
Colorado's troubled public pension has been pulled back from the fiscal brink.
That was the key takeaway from Friday's pension ...
Mother Jones
Americans entering
retirement are in worse financial shape than the prior ... menial jobs as
senior citizens…. portends a drain on public resources…
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