Public Pension Funding Forum Achives
2023
The 2023 Public Pension Funding Forum was held in Chicago, IL, August 20–22. Click the links below to view the final agenda and session PowerPoints.
2023 Final Agenda
- Public Pension Reforms: What Are They and What Drives Them?
- Politics of Pension Reforms: What Can We Do?
- Proposing a Funding Rate for US State Pension Plans
- What Factors Keep Funding Levels High? NYSTRS Case Study
- Stabilizing Funding Means Better Fiscal Health of Pension Plans: The Case Study of Indiana
- Beyond Funding Ratios: Measuring the Health of Public Pension Plans
- The 80% Pension Funding Myth and Beyond
- Where Will the Money Come from to Enhance Fiscal Health of Pensions?
- Assessing Fiscal Sustainability of Fairfax County Pension Plans
- Enhancing the Health of Your Pension Plan: An Actuarial Perspective
- Investment Strategies to Enhance the Health of Pensions
- Economic Outlook
2022
The 2022 Public Pension Funding Forum was held in Los Angeles, CA, August 21–23. Click the links below to view the final agenda and session PowerPoints.
- Pros and Cons of ESG Investing
- ESG – A Defense, A Critique, and a Way Forward
- Understanding Fiscal Sustainability
- Issues in Measuring the Condition of Public Defined Benefit Pension Plans
- Defining and Measuring Public Pension Fiscal Sustainability
- Stabilizing and Managing Unfunded Liabilities
- Strategies to Making CalPERS Sustainable
- Key Factors for Building a Strong Funding Plan – The CalSTRS Experience
- Investment Strategies to Enhance Sustainability
- Macroeconomic Trends and Investment Strategies
- Predicting Financial Crises
- Investing in Turbulent Times
- Two Key Fiscal Policy Options to Make Pensions Sustainable
- Actuarial Strategies to Make Public Pensions Stable and Sustainable
- Improving Public Pension Sustainability through Liability-Aware Investing
- Economic Outlook
2021
The 2021 Public Pension Funding Forum was held in New York, NY, August 22 – 24. Click the links below to view the final agenda and session PowerPoints from the conference.
- Is State and Local Debt Sustainable?
- Are Public Pension Liabilities Sustainable? If Not, What Measures Can Be Taken to Stabilize Them?
- Stabilization Funds/Trusts
- How to Assess Sustainability of a Public Pension Plan?
- Strategies to Sustain Mature Plans with Negative Cash Flows
- Taking on Big Oil - CalSTRS Engagement with Exxon
- “Helicopter Money” and Other FRB Policies to Enhance
- Strategies to Stabilize Pension Plan Funding: Actuarial Perspective
- Strategies to Stabilize Pension Funding: Investment Perspective
- COVID-19 and the U.S. Economy
2020
The 2020 Public Pension Funding Forum was held virtually, August 24 - 25. Click the links below to view the final agenda and session PowerPoints from the conference.
- How Long Can Public Pensions Be Sustained
- Strategies to Maintain an Adequate Funding Level Through Economic Ups and Downs
- The Impact of Geo-scientific and Economic Uncertainty of Climate Change on Market and Social Valuation
- Funding Strategies in Selected Plans
- Funding Challenges in Corona Economy: An Actuarial Perspective
2019
The 2019 Public Pension Funding Forum was held in New York, NY, September 11 - 13. Click the links below to view the final agenda and session PowerPoints from the conference.
- Sustainability of State and Local Government Pensions
- Pension Landscape and Trend, 2nd PPT
- Trends in State and Local Revenues and Expenditure, 2nd PPT
- Public Pension Plan Volatility: What Can We Do? An Actuary’s Perspective, 2nd PPT
- Protecting and Enhancing Public Pensions through Advocacy, 2nd PPT, 3rd PPT
- Various Ways to Close Funding Gap without Dismantling Public Pensions, 2nd PPT
- Exploring Pension Policy on Auto-Pilot, 2nd PPT, 3rd PPT, 4th PPT
- Closing the Funding Gap without Dismantling Pensions, 2nd PPT, 3rd PPT, 4th PPT
- Volatility and Risk Management
2018
The 2018 Public Pension Funding Forum was held in Cambridge, MA September 16 - 18. Click the links below to view the final agenda and session PowerPoints from the conference.
- Public Pension Fund Overview & Research Update
- Pension Landscape and Trends
- State and Local Revenue Options to Address Pension Funding
- Stress Testing – A Tool to Strengthen Public Pensions
- Ensuring Adequate Funding for Public Pensions without Dismantling Them
- Pension Reforms Gone Haywire: What Can We Do
- State Approaches to Addressing Pension Funding Issues
- Are Public Pension Cuts Hurting Your Ability to Recruit Workers?
- Closing the Funding Gap without Dismantling Public Pensions # 1
- Closing the Funding Gap without Dismantling Public Pensions # 2
- Pension Design Innovation