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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 ...
ProPublica ProPublica announced on Thursday that Adriana Pera has been hired as an engagement and tips coordinator, where she’ll work to ensure that the tips that flow into our newsroom remain secure ...
Colorado’s approach in 2010 was creative: trim benefits and increase pension contributions. PERA’s funding shortfall — the difference between the fund’s value and what it’s obliged to ...
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 ...
Colorado PERA — the public pension fund for most state and school employees in the state — announced the rate of return Tuesday as part of its Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for 2011.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Over the protests of Colorado's state treasurer ... State Treasurer Walker Stapleton, an ex-officio, voting member of PERA's board of trustees - and a longtime critic of the system - assailed ...
The Colorado Supreme Court rules PERA retirees aren't entitled to "perpetual receipt" of a fixed 3.5 percent annual cost-of-living adjustment. The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the ...