Late last year it looked like the pension crisis was getting a little bit less bad, in the sense that funding levels had improved a bit. However, the extreme market volatility experienced in the last three months of 2018 may have undone most of the improvements, and any further volatility this year threatens to wipe out the rest. In fact, public pension funds appear to be their own worst enemies because the harder they try to rack up gains against their massive amounts of unfunded liabilities, the harder it’s becoming for them to make any progress. Essentially, volatility begets more…
Public Pensions Are Shooting Themselves In The Foot: Here’s How
Michelle deBoer-Jones
Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.