The Global Pension Nightmare – Global pension underfunding will be $400 trillion by 2050.
Apparently good things do come to an end. The global pension outlook is looking bad and a large part of this stems from people living longer and simply not saving enough while they work. There are some major problems on how pensions are structured and the US, the wealthiest nation in the world is shifting […]
The near extinct pension – US pensions aggressively invest in equities relative to other countries to make up for shortfalls.
The pension is nearly extinct. Overly optimistic returns left many pension plans practically insolvent and not ready to adapt to a low yield environment. The benefit of pensions however is that it forced people to save over time for retirement. What we have learned via the 401k is that when left to their own devices, […]
California is land to the $100k minimum wage state worker: 220,000 highly-compensated state employees cost the public $35 billion.
There is one thing to discuss the minimum wage for servers and many others that work in the low paid service industry but it is another thing to discuss “underpaid†state workers. That statement cannot be said for California’s state employees. In a country where the median household income is $52,000 California seems to be […]
The largest pension fund in the country CalPERs continues to underperform: Weakest return since 2008-09 financial crisis.
The two largest public pensions in the U.S. are Calstrs and Calpers and collectively they oversea $484 billion for public workers in California. Pensions have a hard time surviving in a low return world. For example, these pensions seek out a 7.5% annual return which is simply unrealistic to do in a market that is […]