AUGUST 15, 2018
MINNESOTA NEWS + OPINION
KSTP
Karin
Housley has easily won the state's
Republican primary in a race to finish the ... farm bill, or fighting to
protect the pensions of hard
working Minnesotans. ... Newberger serves as a Minnesota State Representative in District 15B.
Watchdog.org
A bipartisan plan
enacted this year to strengthen Minnesota's troubled public pension systems has
earned bipartisan praise, but some pension experts ...
Duluth
News Tribune
1
stock held by Minnesota's public
pension funds, with the state
holding more than $870 million of the company at the end of 2017. Tech stocks
overall ...
Pensions
& Investments
Minnesota State Board posts 10.3% fiscal-year return ... Minnesota State Board of Investment,
St. Paul, returned a net 10.3% on its ... combined fund assets for the eight
statewide retirement plans the
board manages to $68.3 billion, ...
Minneapolis
Star Tribune
Mark
Dayton and his finance team, last week's news that Minnesota's ... The 2018 Legislature's public employee pension
bill shrank the state's
net ...
NATIONAL NEWS + OPINION
Forbes
There's
a debate going on about public
employee pensions. One study
finds that government pensions
have become more generous over the years.
NJ.com
It includes
several recommendations to cut the cost pension and health benefits for public
workers. The plan also targets property tax bills by merging ...
MarketWatch
In a recent
editorial, The Wall Street Journal reports on state and local pension
liabilities as a percentage of state GDP and concludes that
politicians ...
The Providence Journal
“Breaking a
contract with teachers and public employees.” Shifting pension dollars from
retirees to wealthy hedge-fund owners. His perception: ...
Pensions & Investments
The proposal would
affect the Public Employees' Retirement System, which had assets of $29.2
billion as of June 30, 2017, according to the latest ...
Lexington Herald Leader
Matt Bevin filed
an appeal Friday asking the Kentucky Supreme Court to review a lower court's
ruling that struck down Kentucky's new public pension ...
In These Times
They have fought
privatization of public sector jobs, pushed back on ... about the funding
status of public pensions to ram through crippling reforms to ...
Reuters
The American
Federation of Teachers, which influences over $1 trillion in public-teacher
pension plans, published a report identifying more than two ...
Albuquerque Journal
The reality is
that New Mexico's two biggest pension funds for roughly 110,000 active
employees and 90,000 retirees – the Public Employees ...
Pensions & Investments
Idaho Public
Employee Retirement System, Boise, returned a gross 8.7% and net 8.4% in the
fiscal year ended June 30, said Bob Maynard, chief ...
Pensions & Investments
Kentucky
Retirement Systems, Frankfort, returned a net 8.57% on its pension ... By asset
class, private equity and U.S. public equity posted the highest ...
Census Bureau
View and download
the Annual Survey of Public Pensions datasets for 2017.
Pensions & Investments
Public pension
plans that underperform their benchmarks more often wind up paying higher fees
across all major asset classes, particularly for such ...
Wall Street Journal
Public pension
funds aren't backing away from stocks as the bull market grinds through its
ninth year. Retirement systems that manage money for U.S. ...
Chief Investment Officer
The average funded
status of the Milliman 100 Public Pension Funding Index went from a 71.4%
funded status to 71.2% in the period ended June 30.
Pensions & Investments
"The system's
returns were supported by strong results in both public and private
markets," said Andrew C. Palmer, chief investment officer, in a
news ...
Pensions & Investments
The proposal
unleashed a storm of reactions, many of them negative, about how the changes
could adversely affect public-sector pension funds in ...
New York Magazine
The American
public's sense of entitlement to public pensions, however, proved more
difficult to dispel. Bipartisan attempts to cut Social Security ...
New York Magazine
The retirement
savings of black families fell by 35 percent from 2007 to .... If public
pension funds, which can invest at the very lowest possible fees, ...
Arizona
Daily Sun
... public services and their jobs, pensions, and public schools. Now the baby boomers, who built a middle-class
nation, face old age without pensions ...
Bloomberg
W. Gordon Hamlin
Jr. is the founder and president of Pro Bono Public Pensions and a member of
the Harvard Advanced Leadership Coalition.
Pensions & Investments
North Carolina
Retirement Systems, Raleigh, returned 7.3% for fiscal year 2018, State
Treasurer Dale Folwell reported Thursday. Mr. Folwell said ...
Governing
State and local
legislators and budget managers face a similar challenge: how to ensure that
their public-employee pension systems can pay future ...
Pensions & Investments
Declining return
assumptions have been a trend among public pension plans since 2011, when the
long-standing median of 8% began to decline.
Wall Street Journal
For the past
century, a public pension was an ironclad promise. Whatever else happened,
retired policemen and firefighters and teachers would be ...
Texas Tribune
Texas has a number
of retired teachers that are finding out their pensions ... "These Texas
teachers, who have dedicated their lives to public service, ...
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