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Understanding the legal environment for pension policies can be confusing for both lawmakers and public workers, but illuminating legally permissible policy pathways to improve funding […]
When conducting any analyses, the findings are only as strong as the data being used. This is especially important for policy research, as there are […]
There were some positive steps taken by statewide retirement systems during the decade after the Great Recession. But the strides were not good enough. Most […]
The COVID-19 pandemic is clearly a bad thing, but were public pension plans at least getting healthier before this struck? A few state pension funds […]
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August 18, 2020
State of Pensions 2020 Explained: Unfunded Liabilities as a Share of State Economic Output
A common metric for measuring the fiscal health of a pension plan is the . But on its own this metric doesn’t tell us everything […]
As a stakeholder in a public sector retirement system, you’ve watched over the past decade as states have struggled with their pension fund management and […]
A guaranteed return plan builds retirement income for participants by creating notionally personal accounts for each employee, and blending investments to be managed by a […]
In a hybrid retirement plan, your employer provides access to two compatible benefit structures at the same time. A typical hybrid plan combines a small […]
