The 1%: Illinois' Pension Millionaires
• https://www.zerohedge.com by Austin BergMore than 129,000 Illinois public pensioners will see expected payouts of $1 million or more during retirement.
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More than 129,000 Illinois public pensioners will see expected payouts of $1 million or more during retirement.
An Illinois pension plan just pulled a billion dollars from an underperforming value fund to seek better returns.
When it comes to retirement, France is like other countries, only more so: Everything about its system is untenable.
The pension system in the United States isn't healthy by any stretch of the imagination. It has been underfunded for quite some time.
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Who cares about public pension liability? Well, you should – after all, it's the reason entire cities and even states are facing bankruptcy.
Not even the nation's longest-ever bull market run has been able to save Illinois' crumbling pension funds.
One thing the Democrat Left has always been good at is spending other people's money. Whether it's Democrat lawmakers spending trillions of dollars our country doesn't have or their allies in the Left-wing labor union sector forcing companie
In what looks like a dry run of the looming pension crisis facing corporate America, GE said on Monday that it would freeze pension plan benefits for 20,000 American employees with salaried benefits, WSJ reports. The company also plans to freeze supp
On Friday evening, the government here in Puerto Rico made an announcement to local retirees that many of them would have their pensions cut.
Multiple cities in Illinois are forced to cut police, fire departments and other city services to fund pension plans.
Total potential debt for the U.S. by one all-encompassing measure is running close to 2,000% of GDP, according to an analysis that suggests danger but also cautions against reading too much into the level.
Unnaturally Low and negative yield bond yields are wrecking pension plans.
increases for overpaid teachers … GET OUT while you still have your wallet... (Natural News) A month ago, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot insisted that the city's pension funds were facing bankruptcy and demanded an urgent multi-billion-dollar bai
Over the period from 1915 to 2014 the return on U.S. equities was an annualized 11.5 percent, while the return on government bonds averaged 4.3 percent.
Fiscal responsibility is dead.
The latest op-ed on pensions that has us scratching our heads is from a new face on the scene.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker says Illinois' budget is balanced "for the first time in decades." That's the claim he made upon signing Illinois' $40 billion budget for 2020. Pritzker's claim is simply not true. According to the state's own actuari
when the reckoning comes(Natural News) Despite a bull market that's been running strong for more than 10 years now, public pensions are in very serious trouble, as many states struggle to bring in anything even remotely close to the amount of cash
The amount owed to retirees accelerated faster than assets on hand despite a record bull market.
The past decade was a uniquely smooth stretch of financial highway. Pretty much every major asset class – stocks, bonds, real estate, fine art, you name it – did well, making it hard for conventional investors to lose money and easy for them to e
Municipalities, states and pension managers the nation over have been - in ponzi like fashion - consistently trying to bet on the stock market to help solve their pension liability woes. "Don't worry, stocks will go up enough!" and "Don't worry, we c
Illinois state pensions are getting all the attention as a result of Gov. J.B. Pritzker's budget speech, but don't forget Chicago pensions. Believe it or not, they're in even worse shape than the state pension plans.
Illinois state pensions are getting all the attention as a result of Gov. J.B. Pritzker's budget speech, but don't forget Chicago pensions. Believe it or not, they're in even worse shape than the state pension plans.
Back in December we noted that the lack of basic economic common sense by its politicians led the state of Illinois to a $134 pension shortfall.
Perhaps the Council of Europe considers Åberg's successful efforts of turning in fellow Swedes to the police for perceived thought crimes an example that other European countries should emulate?
Governor Prtizker released details of his plan to save Illinois. He made three of three of the worst possible choices.