CalPERS Responds

Archive - Issues Updates - September 2011



Sep
30
2011
  CalPERS CIO on Investment Target: “The game has gotten harder, but it’s not impossible to succeed”

My recent remarks on Bloomberg Television about the challenges for CalPERS to meet its 7.75 percent assumed rate of return have caught the attention of financial reporters, not to mention critics of public pensions including CalWatchdog.com. For t...

 
Sep
20
2011
  Proposed Government Accounting Standards Set to Burden Public Employers

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has proposed changes to its accounting standards for governmental plans and public employers. The proposals will significantly change pension accounting and financial reporting for state and local...

 
Sep
12
2011
  Cal Watchdog Observations of CalPERS Fall Flat, Incorrect

John Seiler’s observations of our recent PERSpective newsletter to our members falls flat, and in some cases are simply incorrect. For example:
  • Seiler states that we have not made up for the $56.8 billion losses sustained...
 
Sep
1
2011
  Why Pension Critics Are Wrong About CalPERS Assumed Investment Return

Pension critics continue to charge that CalPERS assumed rate of return of 7.75 percent is too optimistic and that the CalPERS unfunded pension gap is much wider than stated.

Fuel for this unfounded claim is now being drawn from CalPERS ...

 


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