July 22, 2016
Welcome to the latest edition of This Week in Pensions! As always, we have gathered the best stories about pensions and retirement security from the previous week. This is the news you need to know in the fight for a …
July 20, 2016
Public pensions play a major role in state budgets. This also means that the budget and tax decisions made by state legislatures and governors have a big impact on public pensions. In no state is this relationship better demonstrated than …
July 18, 2016
Today the Republican Party kicks off its presidential nominating convention. The GOP is expected to nominate reality TV star Donald Trump for president and Indiana Governor Mike Pence for vice president. We’ve expressed concern in the past about Trump and …
July 15, 2016
Welcome to the latest edition of This Week in Pensions! Each week we gather the best stories about pensions and retirement security. This is the news you need to know in the fight for a secure retirement. Here are this …
July 13, 2016
A new report out this week from the National Institute on Retirement Security offers some new insights about the portability of defined benefit pensions. According to the report, pensions have a fairly high degree of portability. One common criticism of …
July 11, 2016
The 2008 financial crisis- dubbed “The Great Recession” by many- had devastating consequences throughout the American economy. Public pension plans were among the hardest hit by the Wall Street greed that led to the crisis. Many public pensions suffered steep …
