Media Response Archives

• Article: "Do Public Pensions Need a Shift in Investment Strategies?" Plansponsor, December 7, 2021
• Media Response: "PSERS doesn't deserve the bad rap | Opinion." The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 30, 2021
• Podcast: Broadcast Retirement Network : How Did Public Pensions Perform During 2020-2021?, June 28, 2021
• News Release: NCPERS Executive Board Taps Kathy Harrell as President, June 3, 2021
• Research: The Top 10 Advantages of Defined Benefit Pension Plans: 2021 Update One Pager (June 2021)
• Research: The Top 10 Advantages of Defined Benefit Pension Plans: 2021 Update (June 2021)
• Media Response: "Prelude to a State Pension Bailout." Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2021
• Research: Global Regulatory Responses and Pension Fund Challenges Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic (March 2021)
• News Release: Bill to Reduce Climate Change Risk in Financial System Draws Broad Support, March 11, 2021
• Article: "North Carolina Lowers Assumed Rate of Return for State Pensins to 6.5%." Chief Investment Officer, February 5, 2021
• Article: "Public Pensions Increasingly Rely on Investment Earnings." Chief Investment Officer, February 5, 2021
• Article: "Public pension trends in 2020." Benefits Pro, February 2, 2021
• Article: "Earnings key driver of public pension revenues- study." Pensions & Investments, January 26, 2021
• Media Response: "Public Pensions Aren't Causing State And Local Budget Gaps- The Pandemic Is." Forbes, January 8, 2021
• Media Response: "The Path to Illinois Pension Reform." The Chicago Tribune, September 9, 2020
• Media Response: "Can States Afford Rising Public Pension Debts?" Forbes, July 30, 2020
• Media Response: "COVID-19 will turn the state pension problem into a fiscal crisis." The Conversation, June 16, 2020
• Media Response: "Two Decades Ago Progressives Warned of a Retirement Crisis. It Didn't Happen." Forbes, June 5, 2020
• Media Response: "The next covid-19 victim? Public pension funds." Washington Post, April 27, 2020
• Media Response: "Coronavirus Is Making the Public Pension Crisis Even Worse." New York Times, April 13, 2020
• Media Response: "The Bottom Line: Illinois’ Public Pension Debt Is A Moral Issue." Forbes, February 26, 2020
• Article: "Reforms May Be the Downfall of Pension Funds." Bloomberg, February, 7, 2020
• Article: "Public pension plans are changing -- how does that affect participants?" BenefitsPro February 6, 2020
• Article: "State and Local Pensions Share Their Own Best Practices." Plansponsor, January 29, 2020
• Article: "Public pension funds trim costs in 2019 – NCPERS survey." Pensions & Investments, January 27, 2020
• Article: "Report: Public Pension Funding, Education Not Mutually Exclusive." Chief Investment Officer, November 4, 2019
• Article: "Public pension funding does not crowd out education – study." Pensions & Investments, October 29, 2019
• Article: "OP-ED: How Home Equity Improves Retirement Security." Chief Investment Officer, May 31, 2019
• Article: "Public Pensions Share What They’re Doing to Boost Funding Levels." ValueWalk, March 21, 2019
• Article: "Exchanges, Investors Face Off Over SEC Transaction Fee Pilot." Pensions & Investments, March 4, 2019
• Article: "Public Pensions Report Strong 2018 Returns." PlanSponsor, February 8, 2019
• Article: "Public Pension Plans Funding Grows in 2018, Assumed Return Rates Dip." Chief Investment Officer, February 8, 2019
• Article: "CalPERS and Other Big Pension Funds are Getting More Conservative, Report Says." The Sacramento Bee, February 6, 2019
• Article: "Average Funding Ratio for Public Pension Plans Increases in 2018 — NCPERS Survey." Pensions & Investments, February 5, 2019
• Article: "Birmingham Pension Shortfall Puts Retirees at Risk." Birmingham News/Al.com, December 10, 2018​
• Media Response: "Who's to Blame for Underfunded Pensions?" Wall Street Journal, July 30, 2018
• Media Response: "Strange Pension Math Leaves States in Pinch of Own Making." New York Times, April 27, 2018
• Media Response: "The pension nightmare for California’s cities is getting scarier." Sacramento Bee, February 26, 2018
• Media Response: "Anti-pension missive does not compute, House Republicans should keep asking smart questions." Lexington Herald, February 19, 2018
• Media Response: "The Risk Pension Funds Can't Escape." Wall Street Journal, February 15, 2018
• Media Response: "California Governor Candidates Dodge Pension Cuts Brown Foresees." Bloomberg, February 12, 2018
• Media Response: "Pensions: a better way forward." Lexington Herad Leader, September 8, 2017
• Media Response: "What Those State- Run Plans Aren't Telling You." Benefits Pro, June 21, 2017
• Article: "Move to 401(k) plans is damaging to national retirement security." The Hill, June 12, 2017
• Policy Note: NCPERS Signs Letter with NASRA & NCTR, May 31, 2017
• Policy Note: NCPERS Statement on the American Benefits Council & the CRA, May 5, 2017
• Media Response: "In Puerto Rico, Teachers' Pension Fund Works Like a Ponzi Scheme." New York Times, March 13, 2017
• Media Response: "The State of Teachers' Pensions." New York Times, March 9, 2017
• Media Response: "America's utterly predictable tsuanami of pension problems." Washington Post, February 23, 2017
• Article:  "Bachrach's proposal of federal intervention wrong for pensions." The Hill, November 16, 2017