Pension Security

Issues Update

California Retirement Dialogue Resource Materials
February 22, 2010
CalPERS has prepared a series of documents for the California Retirement Dialogue which provides detailed background information on topics related to the emerging public discussion of retirement issues and CalPERS pension benefits. The documents are not policy documents but, rather, they are intended to provide a broad informational context for discussion of government pensions and proposals for change. View and download the documents:

• Welcome Letter from CalPERS CEO Anne Stausboll (PDF, 35KB)
• CalPERS Pension Benefit Primer (PDF, 580 KB)
• A History of CalPERS Retirement Benefits (PDF, 629 KB)
• Comparison of Public Pension Principles (PDF, 2.1 MB)
• State and Local Government Pension Reform Concepts (PDF 5.8 MB)
• Pension Ballot Measures (PDF, 784 KB)
• CalPERS Responds to Pension Spiking (PDF, 339KB)
• Other States Responses to 2008 Market Decline (PDF, 1.5 MB)
• Other Resources (PDF, 389 KB)

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