80 percent funding Category
STUMP Classics: What's So Bad About 80% Fundedness?
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The following originally ran in November 2014: Public Pensions: What’s so Bad about 80%? (and coming attractions). This is an edited version [I updated a few links and did text clean up]/
Pension Puffery Has Been Long Standing
I have gotten a few responses to my opening of the 80%...
80% Public Pension Funding Myth Round-Up for 2019
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I just checked, and my last 80% funding myth post was in June 2019, and that wasn’t really a “real” post of that category. Heck, I never had a “real” 80% funding myth post last year [And, I am actually building this post on one I started in 14...
Geeking Out: Improving Public Pension Dataviz
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This piece was brought to my attention:
Not All Cities Have A Pension Problem
The Top 21% of Cities With High Pension Funding Levels Deserve Attention and Usually Praise
With so much well-deserved negative attention focused on cities with huge unfunded pension overhangs, it’s probably a good time to draw attention...
State of the Pensions: Oregon
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Yes, my blogging has been lighter of late (lots of real life stuff for me to do, including grading actuarial exams), but there has been a lot of pension-related activity, and especially public pensions. I may not blog it here, but I sure do update my watch threads at by meep
I knew you’d get there eventually, y’all! I saw it both in the WSJ and Pensions&Investment news, and the WSJ piece is somewhat reasonable…. but the P&I bit is something else. WALL STREET JOURNAL COVERAGE: JUST THE FACTS, MA’AM I first saw it on... by meep
Ugh. What a year. I’m beat. It also doesn’t help that I just slogged through the end of War and Peace (because I had to get it done by 6am this morning when the audiobook was going poof). One of the things that was a positive for 2018 is that... by meep
No, I hadn’t been posting about the 80 percent funding hall of shame lately, but I have been updating my records. Let’s see what I have through the first half of 2018! THE STATS Before I give you the new (and repeat) entrants, let’s check the numbers! It’s been... by meep
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I thank my readers who emailed me these stories – (note: email me at marypat.campbell@gmail.com)
– my normal news searches would have missed the crucial items.Others Notice That A Long Bull Market Hasn't Improved Public Pension Fundedness
Bye Bye 2018 - And the 80 Percent Funding Myth Persists
At the Half: Updating the 80 Percent Funding Hall of Shame
Mornings with Meep: On Seeking Truth and Not Lying
Two Awful Tastes That Go Great Together: Pension Obligation Bonds and 80% Funding Myth
Okay, maybe not, but there is some awfully suspicious...
The Fiscal State of Connecticut: Totally Screwed
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And that’s the “aspirational” take.
Here’s the short version of the story. Back in December, the governor of Connecticut called forth a Commission to check out exactly how screwed Connecticut is in its finances.
March 1, they issued a draft report.
Conclusion: CT is very, very screwed.
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