Unfunded Liabilities
Pioneer’s research on Massachusetts’ unfunded liabilities seeks to advance pension reforms that provide fair and sustainable retirement support. Our current pension system has enormous unfunded liabilities and provides incentives that are not in line with the private sector. A reformed pension system would limit unfunded liabilities, provide benefits consistent with private sector plans, and offer incentives to attract a qualified state workforce. In 2012-13, we are releasing a ten-part series focusing on this topic.
Research
Unfunded Liabilities
- MassPensions.com Update on Public Retirement Systems
- The Logic of Pension Valuation II: A Response to Andrew Biggs
- MRR Calculator Utility
- Market Rates of Return for Effective Financial Management
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Eight Patrick Administration Budgets Later
- Hard Lessons for Institutional Investors from the MBTA Retirement Fund
- Testimony Before the Joint Committee on Public Service Regarding the MBTA Retirement Fund
- Solvency and Insolvency of the MBTA Retirement Fund
- Myths and Reality about MBTA Pensions
- Testimony before the Joint Committee on Public Service of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Regarding the Fiscal Condition of Local Retirement Systems
- The Costs of Delaying the Funding of Public Pensions in Massachusetts
- Have the MBTA’s Retirement Plans Gone Off the Rails?
- The Logic of Pension Valuation: A Response to Robert Novy-Marx
- The Cost of Cost-of-Living Adjustments in Massachusetts Public Retirement Systems
- Do We Need Them? How Many Retirement Boards Are Necessary to Provide Pension Benefits for Massachusetts Public Employees
- MassPensions: How Difficult Is Institutional Transparency?
- The Elephant in the Room: Unfunded Public Employee Health Care Benefits and GASB 45 Public Employee Benefits Series: Part 3
- Leaving Money on the Table: The 106 Pension Systems of Massachusetts Public Employee Benefits Series: Part 2
- Improving the Investment Performance of Massachusetts Pension Funds
- Fiscal Implications of Massachusetts’ Retirement Boards’ Investment Returns
- The Elephant in the Room: NO. 32 • July 2006 Unfunded Public Employee Health Care Benefits and GASB 45
- GIC Consolidation
- Public Pensions
- Rhetoric and Reality: Pension Benefits for Retired Massachusetts State Workers
Pension
- MassPensions.com Update on Public Retirement Systems
- The Logic of Pension Valuation II: A Response to Andrew Biggs
- MRR Calculator Utility
- Market Rates of Return for Effective Financial Management
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Eight Patrick Administration Budgets Later
- Hard Lessons for Institutional Investors from the MBTA Retirement Fund
- Testimony Before the Joint Committee on Public Service Regarding the MBTA Retirement Fund
- Solvency and Insolvency of the MBTA Retirement Fund
- Myths and Reality about MBTA Pensions
- Testimony before the Joint Committee on Public Service of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Regarding the Fiscal Condition of Local Retirement Systems
- The Costs of Delaying the Funding of Public Pensions in Massachusetts
- Have the MBTA’s Retirement Plans Gone Off the Rails?
- The Logic of Pension Valuation: A Response to Robert Novy-Marx
- The Cost of Cost-of-Living Adjustments in Massachusetts Public Retirement Systems
- Do We Need Them? How Many Retirement Boards Are Necessary to Provide Pension Benefits for Massachusetts Public Employees
- MassPensions: How Difficult Is Institutional Transparency?
- The Elephant in the Room: Unfunded Public Employee Health Care Benefits and GASB 45 Public Employee Benefits Series: Part 3
- Improving the Investment Performance of Massachusetts Pension Funds
- Fiscal Implications of Massachusetts’ Retirement Boards’ Investment Returns
- Public Pensions
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