MARCH 15, 2019
MINNESOTA NEWS + OPINION
Minneapolis
Star Tribune
Last
week I gave a talk at the University of Minnesota
on my latest book, ... economics contributor, "Marketplace,"
commentator, Minnesota Public ...
Workday Minnesota
A recent two-part
report from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) exposes how public
pensions are intertwined with some of the most harmful ...
NATIONAL NEWS + OPINION
Bond Buyer
Moody's Investors
Service viewed a recent California Supreme Court ruling on public pensions
positive for governments in the state while S&P Global ...
National Public Pension Coalition
Public pensions
benefit the economies of local communities, states, and the nation. Our new
video highlights the powerful economic impact of ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal
The unfairness of
the outrageous pensions provided by our state system is an insult to the
hardworking citizens of Nevada. Yes, public servants are ...
OCRegister
Last week, the
California Supreme Court issued a ruling in Cal Fire Local 2881 v. CalPERS, a
case involving public employee pensions. For taxpayers ...
Madison.com
Most retired
public employees in Wisconsin will get by without a reduction in their pensions
this year even though the Wisconsin Retirement System ...
Forbes
To parapharase
Horace Greeley in his Manifest Destiny exhortation, but for those seeking out
well-funded public pension plans, it's time to go north ...
Accounting Today
GASB invited the
public to comment on the proposed standards, and Truth In Accounting CEO Sheila
... Weinberg contends the proposal would be misleading about the true costs of
pensions and retiree health care benefits. “It also ...
Reason Foundation
A 2018 Milliman
Public Pension Study of the 100 largest U.S. public pension plans found average
discount rates fell from 7.5 percent in 2017 to 7.25 ...
Forbes
In the news earlier
this week, to cite the L.A. Times headline, "California Supreme Court
curbs a pension benefit but preserves 'California Rule'.".
Crain's Chicago Business
A public-private
partnership generating billions for cash-starved state retirement systems while
retaining ownership of this highly valuable public asset ...
NJ.com
Another
record-setting public pension payment. Murphy's budget would contribute $3.8
billion to the pension fund for public workers next year — $579 ...
Mackinac
Center for Public Policy
The
so-called “pension tax” affects
a lot of people in Michigan. ... Michigan had fully exempted the defined
benefit pensions of public workers from ...
Washington Post
The bill comes
amid a renewed surge of activism among public school ... Education funding and
pensions for teachers have been volatile issues in the ...
San Francisco Chronicle
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)
— California high court says public workers can't pad pensions, sidesteps
whether retirement benefits can be taken away.
Providence Business News
PROVIDENCE – Rhode
Island's pension fund earned $323 million from ... have their public pension
systems managed responsibly,” Magaziner said ...
Pensions & Investments
And while asset
transfers such as these could present issues of their own, more public pension
plans are likely to explore this avenue. "There's a ...
NPR
And now with the retirement of more baby boomers,
it's time to pay up. Houston Public Media's Andrew Schneider reports on
how one city is trying to ...
GFOA
What
is going on in the world of public
pensions? This session will highlight trends seen across pension plans
and the implications they have on state ...
Newsday
The cost of
teacher pensions will fall substantially for school districts during ... The
New York State Teachers' Retirement System, one of the nation's ... over
whether retirement systems for teachers and other public employees
should ...
ValueWalk
"The problem
is that our nation's public pensions have become the dominant global investor,
are grossly underfunded and thus have to reach for risk, ...
Forbes
Have you ever been
annoyed by “Robo calling”? What about “Robo voting”— a system that many public
pension funds use to discharge their ...
Reuters
The ensuing debate
casts a spotlight on an important national conversation ... The federal
government taxes income from tax-deferred retirement ...
San Francisco Business Times
Warren Buffett
described unfunded public pensions as a “disaster” that companies and
individuals must consider when deciding where to expand or ...
Bloomberg
None other than
Warren Buffett called public pensions a “gigantic financial tapeworm” five
years ago. “During the next decade, you will read a lot of ...
Forbes
The evidence
continues to mount: Illinois's new elected officials and their advisors simply
don't believe that it matters that public pensions are ...
KWCH
(AP) - A public
pensions funding bill has passed the Kansas Legislature unanimously but touched
off partisan sniping. The measure sent Friday to ...
Bond Buyer
WASHINGTON —
Public pension funds are taking advantage of the benefits of infrastructure
investment, which fund managers say offers a perfect ...
WKU Public Radio
The legislation is
the latest attempt to address the low funding levels of Kentucky's retirement
systems for public workers by altering benefits. Rep.
Pensions & Investments
North Carolina
Retirement Systems, Raleigh, returned a net -1.47% in 2018, ... The biggest
losses were in public equity, 40% of the portfolio, which ...
City Journal
The high benefit
costs set public workers in Connecticut apart from their ... state from
altering the rate at which public workers earn retirement credits, ...
Wall Street Journal
He also is asking
state workers to accept lower cost-of-living adjustments for their pension
benefits during years when the public retirement system has ...
Show-Me Institute
A bill to allow
Missouri public school teachers to decide for themselves whether they wanted a
traditional pension or a 401(k) type retirement benefit ...
Allegheny Institute
The 2019 status
report for Pennsylvania's local pension plans has been released. As earlier
reports have illustrated, the pension system is actually a ...
Illinois News Network
He said he wants
public employees to recognize the growing debt and give some, as taxpayers
continue to give. If not, there will be consequences.
Pensions
& Investments
After
state and local pension fund assets plummeted to $2.17
trillion in ... Another recent concept is mandated stress-testing of public pension funds to .... states
like Minnesota, where 2018
reforms that cut assumed rates of return, ...
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