February 5, 2018
By now, the story of public pensions in Kentucky has become a familiar one: after years of underfunding by the state government, the public pension plans in the Bluegrass State are among the most poorly funded in the nation. Last …
February 1, 2018
Public pension plans continued to improve and strengthen their funded status last year. That is the takeaway from a new report by the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems (NCPERS). With many plans earning double-digit investment returns, pension plans …
January 30, 2018
Tonight, President Trump will deliver his first State of the Union address to Congress. It is unlikely that he will mention pensions for federal employees in his speech, but in the weeks ahead, the president will propose his budget for …
January 26, 2018
Welcome to the latest edition of This Week in Pensions! As we do most weeks, 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 …
January 24, 2018
Since the Great Recession in 2008, warnings of an impending pension crisis have been splashed across the business pages of newspapers across the country. Despite these boisterous decrees, America’s public pension funds are stable. We explore the roots behind the …
January 22, 2018
A Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) is an occasional increase in the amount of a retiree’s or beneficiary’s pension payment in order to account for inflation. COLAs have been much discussed recently, in part because it has been so long …
