Actuarial Notes

Pensions in the Public Sector

By Olivia S. Mitchell and Edwin C. Hustead · University of Pennsylvania Press · 2001 · RET201-113-25

Study guide: Exam RET-201

A Pension Research Council volume edited by Olivia S. Mitchell and Edwin C. Hustead. It takes stock of public pension developments in the US and Canada, highlighting the challenges these financial institutions face in coming decades, and is the first Pension Research Council study of public pensions in a quarter-century, written by a team of international actuarial, legal and economic experts. The syllabus assigns its Chapter 9.

On the syllabus

  • Exam RET-201 — RET201-113-25: Pensions in the Public Sector, Ch. 9; outcome 4c.

1 Public Sector Pension Plans: Lessons and Challenges for the Twenty-First Century

  • Edwin C. Hustead and Olivia S. Mitchell

2 Developments in State and Local Pension Plans

  • Olivia S. Mitchell, David McCarthy, Stanley C. Wisniewski, and Paul Zorn

3 State Employee Pension Plans

  • Karen Steffen

4 Federal Civilian and Military Retirement Systems

  • Edwin C. Hustead and Toni Hustead

5 Canadian Public Sector Employee Pension Plans

  • Silvana Pozzebon

6 Regulation and Taxation of Public Plans: A History of Increasing Federal Influence

  • Roderick B. Crane

7 Governance and Investments of Public Pensions

  • Michael Useem and David Hess

8 Investment Practices of State and Local Pension Funds: Implications for Social Security Reform

  • Alicia H. Munnell and Annika Sundén

9 Asset/Liability Management in the Public Sector

  • Michael Peskin

10 Determining the Cost of Public Pension Plans

  • Edwin C. Hustead

11 The Life and Times of a Public Sector Pension Plan Before Social Security: The U.S. Navy Pension Plan in the Nineteenth Century

  • Robert L. Clark, Lee A. Craig, and Jack W. Wilson

12 Going Private in the Public Sector: The Transition from Defined Benefit to Defined Contribution Pension Plans

  • Douglas Fore

13 Florida's Public Pension Reform Debate: A Discussion of the Issues and Estimates of the Option Costs

  • Kenneth Trager, James Francis, and Kevin SigRist

14 Pension Governance in the Pennsylvania State Employees' Retirement System

  • John Brosius

15 The New Jersey Pension System

  • Tom Bryan

16 Public Pensions in Washington, D.C.

  • Edwin C. Hustead

17 Public Pension Design and Responses to a Changing Workforce

  • Cathie Eitelberg

Contributors, Index

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