Understanding Decisions in State Pension Systems: A System Framework
Source: Gang Chen, The American Review of Public Administration, OnlineFirst, Published online before print November 1, 2016 (subscription required) From the abstract: State governments establish...
View ArticlePension Structure and Employee Turnover: Evidence from a Large Public Pension...
Source: Dan Goldhaber, Cyrus Grout, Kristian L. Holden, ILR Review, Online First, Published online before print November 4, 2016 (subscription required) From the abstract: Public pension systems in...
View ArticleState Hybrid Retirement Systems
Source: National Association of State Retirement Administrators, NASRA Issue Brief, November 2016 From the introduction: Although hybrid plans have been in place in public sector retirement systems for...
View ArticleNew Developments in Social Investing by Public Pensions
Source: Alicia H. Munnell and Anqi Chen, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, SLP#53, November 2016 The brief’s key findings are: – Public pension funds continue to engage in social...
View ArticlePension Liabilities Exceed Capital-Related Debt at US Public Universities
Source: Moody’s Investors Service, Sector In-Depth, November 18, 2016 (subscription required) Credit risk related to unfunded pension liabilities for public universities we rate is increasing and...
View ArticlePension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC): A Primer
Source: John J. Topoleski, Congressional Research Service (CRS), CRS Report, 95-118, November 3, 2016 The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is a federal government agency established by the...
View ArticleMultiemployer Defined Benefit (DB) Pension Plans: A Primer and Analysis of...
Source: John J. Topoleski, Congressional Research Service, CRS Report, R43305, November 3, 2016 Multiemployer defined benefit (DB) pension plans are pensions sponsored by more than one employer and...
View ArticleHow Public Pension Plan Demographic Characteristics Affect Funding And...
Source: Donald J. Boyd, Yimeng Yin, Rockefeller Institute of Government, December 2016 The Rockefeller Institute has introduced a Public Pension Stochastic Simulation Model that examines the...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Case That Could Bankrupt Religious Schools and Hospitals
Source: Emma Green, The Atlantic, December 12, 2016 Advocate Health Care Network v. Stapleton pits financially strained organizations against their own workers, who fear their promised pensions may not...
View ArticleRemoving the Legal Impediments to Offering Lifetime Annuities in Pension Plans
Source: Jonathan Barry Forman, Pension Research Council Working Paper, WP2016-6, August 2016 from the abstract: Longevity risk–the risk of outliving one’s retirement savings–is probably the greatest...
View ArticleRetirement Security Legislation in the States
Source: Anna Petrini, LegisBrief, Vol. 24 no. 44, November 2016 (subscription required) Even as they are living longer, many Americans—especially those working in the private sector— are not saving...
View Article2016 Retirement Confidence Survey of the State and Local Government Workforce
Source: Paul J. Yakoboski, Joshua M. Franzel, Center for State and Local Government Excellence, December 2016 From the summary: This report examines the employment and retirement planning and saving...
View ArticleOECD Pensions Outlook 2016
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), December 2016 From the abstract: The OECD Pensions Outlook 2016 assesses policy issues regarding strengthening pension systems...
View ArticleState and Local Pension Reform Since the Financial Crisis
Source: Jean-Pierre Aubry and Caroline V. Crawford, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Issue in Brief, SLP#54, January 2017 The brief’s key findings are: • Since the financial crisis, 74...
View ArticlePublic Pension Investment Risk-Taking May Result in Future Challenges
Source: Donald J. Boyd, Yimeng Yin, Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, Pension Simulation Project, January 2017 The latest report from the Rockefeller Institute’s Pension Simulation Project...
View ArticleNCPERS 2016 Public Retirement Systems Study
Source: National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems, December 2016 In September, October and November 2016, the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems (NCPERS)...
View ArticleCost Sharing Among State Defined Benefit Pension Plans: Approaches to...
Source: Greg Mennis, Pew Charitable Trusts, January 2017 From the overview: A number of states with defined benefit, or traditional, pension plans have enacted policies that retain the core elements of...
View ArticleSoftening Investment Expectations Signal Accelerating Budget Pressure from...
Source: Thomas Aaron, Timothy Blake, Moody’s, Sector InDepth, State and Local Government – US, February 16, 2017 (subscription required) State and local governments have held down annual pension...
View ArticleMore Americans Live in Fear of Retiring Poor
Source: Suzanne Woolley, Bloomberg, February 28, 2017 Pensions are vanishing, and state-sponsored IRAs are under attack. Yet most Americans support both, a new survey shows.
View ArticlePublic Pension Plan Investment Return Assumptions
Source: National Association of State Retirement Administrators, NASRA Issue Brief, February 2017 As of September 30, 2016, state and local government retirement systems held assets of $3.82 trillion....
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