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lawmakers withheld a chunk of money from the Colorado Public Employees’ Retirement Association in an effort to shore up the budget. Now that the economy has stabilized, lawmakers should give ...
Colorado PERA announced Thursday it has launched a fund that will invest in Colorado businesses. Capital from the Colorado Mile High Fund will be earmarked for “Colorado businesses that have a ...
DENVER — The Colorado Public Employees’ Retirement Association (PERA), which provides pension benefits to public employees in the state, will divest millions from Russia's largest financial ...
The computer system PERA uses to track and pay out benefits is 40 years old – the oldest still in use by any public pension in the U.S. Colorado’s public pension board earlier this month ...
In Colorado, conservative think tanks are spreading anti-public-worker propaganda claiming that PERA (Public Employees’ Retirement Association) employees and retirees are greedy parasites and ...
More than 100 people attended an informational meeting Thursday evening at the Sterling Elks Lodge to learn about changes Colorado PERA (Public Employees’ Retirement Association) is recommending ...
Colorado Treasurer Walker Stapleton on Tuesday warned that the Colorado Public Employees’ Retirement Association’s lower-than-expected 1.9 percent return on its investments in 2011 will mean ...
Nonsense. Greg Smith is the executive director of Colorado’s Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA). He claims that PERA’s retired government employees support nearly 48,000 jobs, for a total ...
In Colorado, the Public Employees’ Retirement Association manages the retirement funds for over 620,000 people. Unfortunately, the Colorado PERA fund has decided to invest upwards of $1.5 billion in ...
Boulder’s director of communication is leaving the city to take a similar position at Colorado PERA. Patrick von Keyserling will resign effective May 22 to become the senior communication ...
A number of retirees sued the state and the Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association (PERA) after lawmakers enacted Senate Bill 1, which among other things reduced the annual cost-of ...