US public pension funds are rapidly going broke:
We've frequently argued that public pension funds in the U.S. are nothing more than thinly-veiled ponzi schemes with their ridiculously high return assumptions specifically intended to artificially minimize the present value of future retiree payment obligations and thus also minimize required annual contributions from taxpayers ... all while actual, if immediately intangible, underfunded liabilities continue to surge.
As evidence of that assertion, we present to you the latest public pension analysis from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. As part of their study, Boston College reviewed 170 public pension plans in the U.S. and found that their average 2016 return was an abysmal 0.6% compared to an average assumed return of 7.6%.
You can read the rest @
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-02/what-ponzi-scheme-public-pensions-average-06-return-2016-despite-76-assumption
Not good ... not good. A lot of us are going to get screwed.
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