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Legislation 14
Colorado’s State Legislature Goes to Work: What to Expect in 2020

At 10 a.m. on January 8, the sudden bang of a gavel striking its sounding block will pierce the morning air in Colorado’s State Capitol. This will happen ...
On January 7, 2020 / By PERA on the Issues
Governance 3
PERA Board Meeting Notes: Setting PERA’s Portfolio Mix

How should PERA invest the roughly $50 billion PERA portfolio? That question was answered on November 15, when PERA’s Board of Trustees approved updated asset allocation guidelines. Asset ...
On December 3, 2019 / By PERA on the Issues
Governance 27
PERA’s Investment Objective: Ensuring Retirement Security

Investing requires an objective, just like charting a course on a map requires having a destination. A trip to Peru is not a successful trip if the objective ...
On November 13, 2019 / By PERA on the Issues
Governance 16
If PERA had a signal light, its divisions would be orange. What does that mean?

The Colorado PERA Board of Trustees is constantly monitoring the performance of the PERA fund and the long-term health and sustainability of each of PERA’s divisions (State, School, ...
On July 12, 2017 / By PERA on the Issues
Retirement Landscape 1
Colorado PERA Drives $6.1 Billion in Economic Output and Helps Sustain 32,800 Jobs

Distributions from Colorado PERA translate to $6.1 billion in economic output and help to sustain more than 32,800 Colorado jobs annually. These figures represent increases over the 2014 ...
On April 4, 2017 / By PERA on the Issues
Innovation 0
Money purchase feature of the PERA plan design explained

PERA is classified as a “hybrid” defined benefit plan which means it has characteristics of a traditional pension plan as well as some additional features that are more ...
On March 31, 2017 / By PERA on the Issues
Innovation 3
Fordham Institute Gets it Wrong

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute recently issued a report critical of many teacher retirement plans across the country. (The Fordham Institute, with offices in Ohio and Washington D.C., ...
On March 21, 2017 / By PERA on the Issues
Governance 5
PERA Board: Working for You

The Board of Trustees of Colorado PERA is a group of 16 professionals who are responsible for overseeing PERA’s investment program and the administration of PERA’s benefits. The ...
On February 23, 2017 / By PERA on the Issues
Governance 2
Actuarial Impact Analysis

In light of the PERA Board adopting changes in economic and demographic assumptions, the PERA Board of Trustees received updated information from their actuaries regarding the length of ...
On February 1, 2017 / By PERA on the Issues
Governance 7
The Impact of Assumption Changes

In late November, the PERA Board of Trustees voted to lower PERA’s expected investment rate of return to 7.25 percent from 7.5 percent and adopt new mortality tables. ...
On December 14, 2016 / By PERA on the Issues