Pension funds

Paul Gray, co-founder of IronHold Capital, links the unfunded liability problem to bad public policy decisions and bad hedge-fund actors. Paul Burton hosts (13 minutes).

The next phase of pension risk analysis will be different and more challenging: Assessing the long-term impacts of individual jurisdictions’ choices in the context of their unique workforce demographics, benefits and salary structure, and pension funding status.

Illinois' pension crater reaches more than $300 billion under Moody's formula.

California teachers cited the risk of exposure to COVID-19 and the challenges of remote teaching as reasons for retiring early.

This year's pension debt volume could match that of 2020, which was the highest since the financial crisis year of 2008, industry leaders say.

With interest rates at historic lows and stock market returns at record highs, Tucson sees a ripe opportunity to issue pension debt.

Illinois lawmakers chose a new speaker this week after a lame-duck session that could add to Chicago's and the state's budget strains.

New revenue from a graduated tax without an accompanying long-term plan to tackle the state's fiscal woes won't solve them, the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago warns.

Treasurer Deborah Goldberg and the commonwealth's Pension Reserves Investment Management board look to improve measurement of environmental, social and governance data.

Despite market volatility, the North Carolina Retirement Systems reported second quarter assets were valued higher than before the state’s COVID-19 shutdown.