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Are Public Pensions in a Crisis? Part 2: Is Pay-as-You-Go Sustainable?
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Second in a series on public pension stability. I look at a recent paper from Brookings, where a sample of representative public pensions are projected to see what stable situations they could achieve (including going to pay-as-they-go status). The Brookings authors define stability such that a pension fund debt is a constant percentage of state GDP. There are tables and graphs.Are Public Pensions in a Crisis? Part 1: My Opinion
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I kick off a series of posts looking at recent papers claiming there is no public pension crisis. My take: I don't care if the term "crisis" is the one used. Many public pensions are not in good condition and will have financial effects on the polities supporting them. Not all public pension systems are in a bad way, but many are, and the systems in place for funding, valuation, and oversight are not only inadequate for protecting public pensions, but often encourage risky behavior.Trump Tweets and Public Pensions: Is CalSTRS really a long-term investor?
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A headline about Trump tweets being a risk factor to be considered for Calstrs investing sets me off...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
Okay, before I begin. A few videos I did on my favorite teachers: Those are all positive. In case you... by meep
For Teacher Appreciation Week, I made a video about my favorite teacher: give it a watch. That video is all positive. What I have below is not. TEACHER PENSIONS ARE A PROBLEM BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY Teacher pensions are a huge problem for... by meep
Not But yes, a lot of divestment. Harvard Activists Call for Fossil Fuel Divestment Harvard University students, faculty, and alumni marked Earth Day by kicking of a week of climate-related rallies and calling on the university’s $39.2 billion endowment to eliminate fossil fuel-related companies from its investment portfolio. Divest Harvard, a...Teachers Appreciation Week: Public Teacher Mortality
Teacher Pensions: A Big Problem for Many States
Divestment and ESG Follies: Where's My Dark Money?
only divestment.
Others Notice That A Long Bull Market Hasn't Improved Public Pension Fundedness
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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...
Divestment and ESG Follies...and Heroes: YAY for President of Brown University, Oil, and Private Prisons
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It’s been about 3 weeks since my last divestment-related post, so let me dump a bunch here. There was actually quite a few good results.
Brown University President Rejects Israel Divestment
Brown University’s president has rejected a student-approved referendum calling for the university to divest from companies that conduct business...
An Ugly Interest Rate Environment and Public Pensions Chasing Returns
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The Federal Reserve Open Markets Committee (FOMC) had a meeting this past week, and the reactions have been ugly.
This is what I mean by ugly: a yield curve inversion.
The x-axis is years, and the y-axis is the percent rate.
What that graph shows is that the 1-month to...
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