Certified Trustee Program 19-5 – Registration Now Open
Source: IPPFA

Certified Trustee Program 19-5 is being held at NIU Campus, Hoffman Estates, Illinois starting October 21, 2019.

For over 30 years, the IPPFA has offered public pension trustees the best and latest in trustee training education, striving to offer the best available training. Please join us for sessions in ethics, investment procedures, fiduciary responsibilities, and legal and legislative updates, all presented by nationally renowned speakers.

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How Much Income Do Retirees Actually Have?
Source: Center for Retirement Research

The brief’s key findings are:

  • Recent research has re-documented that the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS) understates retirement income.
  • Some have wondered if this problem also applies to other surveys and calls into question decades of research that suggest many are ill-prepared for retirement.
  • To answer this question, the analysis compared estimates from five commonly used national surveys to administrative data from the IRS and Social Security.
  • This comparison shows that:
    • the CPS continues to substantially understate retirement income, but
    • the other four surveys – the SCF, HRS, SIPP, and PSID – track closely with administrative data, and
    • estimates of retirement preparedness using a reliable survey find that roughly half of older households may fall short in retirement.
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Certified Trustee Program 19-1 – Registration Now Open
Source: IPPFA

Certified Trustee Program 19-1 is being held at NIU Campus, Naperville, Illinois starting March 4, 2019.

For over 30 years, the IPPFA has offered public pension trustees the best and latest in trustee training education, striving to offer the best available training. Please join us for sessions in ethics, investment procedures, fiduciary responsibilities, and legal and legislative updates, all presented by nationally renowned speakers.

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Cost of Care Survey 2018
Source: Genworth

For 15 years, Genworth has developed the Cost of Care Survey to help families understand the costs of varying types of care across the U.S. Since 2004, the Cost of Care survey has become the foundation for long term care planning. The 2018 survey, conducted by Carescout®, covering 440 regions is based on data collected from more than 15,500 completed surveys. Get started today. Calculate the Cost of Care in your area.

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Welcome Pontiac Fire Pension Fund to IPPFA
Source: IPPFA

Welcome Pontiac Fire Pension Fund to IPPFA.

 

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Trends in Retirement Security by Race/Ethnicity
Source: Center for Retirement Research

The brief’s key findings are:

  • The earnings and wealth gaps between whites and minorities are enormous. The question is how these disparities translate to retirement preparedness.
  • In 2016, the share of whites at risk in retirement was 48 percent vs. 54 percent for blacks and 61 percent for Hispanics, smaller than the earnings/wealth disparities.
  • The retirement gap is smaller simply because minorities have a lower pre-retirement standard of living to maintain.
  • From 2007-2016, retirement risk for all three groups increased, but the gap between whites and blacks narrowed while Hispanics fell further behind because:
    • a sharp decline in earnings among low-income blacks was buffered by Social Security; and
    • Hispanics were hit much harder than either whites or blacks by the bursting of the housing bubble.
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