September 23, 2021
U.S. public pension funds experienced strong investment returns in the most recent fiscal year, but the funded ratio for most statewide retirements plans are […]
September 23, 2021
Statewide retirement benefits look different than they did at the beginning of the century, or even at the start of the previous decade. In this […]
June 24, 2021
Equable Institute on June 24 launched the first edition of the Retirement Security Report, an interactive digital report that evaluates the quality of retirement benefits […]
September 28, 2021
The median assumed rate of return for state defined benefit retirement plans in the United States is 7%, as of September 2021. The average is […]
September 23, 2021
State of Pensions 2021 is an annual report on the status of statewide public pension systems, put into a historic context. State and local governments […]
September 23, 2021
Do the past year’s strong investment returns mean pension funds are on track to becoming resilient? Not entirely. This year’s incredible investment returns have certainly […]
September 3, 2021
There are over 340 sets of benefit provisions available to new hires in the public sector, as of August 2021 — plus hundreds more retirement […]
August 13, 2021
The Hill recently featured an op-ed written by Equable Institute’s Executive Director Anthony Randazzo on why pension funds should think twice before divesting from Unilever […]
August 13, 2021
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System recently announced good news—it is lowering their investment assumption from 7% to 6.8%. Oh, and the nation’s largest pension […]
August 13, 2021
The Massachusetts legislature is considering a controversial bill that, if enacted, would provide three years of credit to public workers’ retirement plans upon retirement if […]
July 20, 2021
Dear Public Retirement System Trustees, Chief Officers, and Executive Directors, A few years ago I was speaking to a small group of educators in New […]
July 2, 2021
There are many theories about why America has over a trillion dollars in public pension debt. And there is certainly more than one reason why, […]
June 29, 2021
“The National Landscape of State Retirement Benefits,” a recent report published by Equable Institute, recently found that a majority of public workers are not on […]
June 24, 2021
Equable Institute on June 24 launched the first edition of “The National Landscape of State Retirement Benefits,” a topline report of the quality of retirement […]
June 24, 2021
Finances are not one-size-fits-all — there are many ways yours may differ from other individuals and households, and that makes grading the quality of a […]
June 22, 2021
When analyzing the scores for the Retirement Security Report, we noticed an anomaly in the results that at first looked like an error. Scores for […]
June 22, 2021
When evaluating their individual retirement plan in the Retirement Security Report, public workers should look to see whether their plan is expected to work for […]
June 21, 2021
The Retirement Security Report is an interactive, digital evaluation of the quality of retirement benefits offered to public workers nationwide using customizable score cards for […]
June 21, 2021
Equable Institute‘s Retirement Security Report looks at the adequacy of state retirement benefits for public sector workers, and now workers can find out how well […]
June 17, 2021
We care as much about government retirement systems living up to the promise of a path to retirement security as much as we care about […]
