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Is Your State’s Pension System about to Collapse?

December 6, 2019 By E.J. Smith

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Katherine Loughead discusses state pension data from The Pew Charitable Trusts at The Tax Foundation. I’ve warned many times that states are under-funding their pensions and using unrealistic expected rates of return to hide their malfeasance (read here, here, here, and here). The low funding ratios are starting to bite. She writes:

As of fiscal year 2016 (the most recent data available), states reported a combined $1.4 trillion in state pension plan funding deficits.

Over the last two years, below-expected returns on investment and insufficient state allocations contributed to widening shortfalls in numerous states.

This week’s map shows the funded ratio of public pension plans by state, calculated by measuring the market value of state pension plan assets in proportion to each state’s accrued pension liabilities.

Lower funded ratios indicate when a state’s pension plan is not adequately funded, while higher funded ratios are evident in states whose pension assets are keeping relatively good pace with accrued liabilities.

Read more here.

Originally posted on Yoursurvivalguy.com. 

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E.J. Smith
E.J. Smith is Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. His focus at all times is on preparing clients and readers for “Times Like These.” E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998. E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zilldjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart (RIP) of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris.

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