Guest AuthorMarch 17, 2021
7min4984
Don’t buy the myths that FRS is just fine. It is not.
Tag: florida retirement system
Guest AuthorMarch 17, 2021
Jason DelgadoMarch 2, 2021
5min3072
Democratic leaders oppose the proposal.
A.G. GancarskiMay 20, 2020
3min565
Some retirements ride on Chinese Communist oppression.
Jim RosicaJuly 20, 2019
6min972
"This is an incredible and deserving outcome."
Jim RosicaJuly 18, 2019
9min1053
Sam Culpepper "would be brought in when a prison was experiencing disruption."
Michael MolineSeptember 17, 2018
3min713
Ash Williams, who manages investments for the Florida Retirement System among other funds, would draw a $70,000 annual pay raise under a recommendation approved Monday. The pay hike, by the state’s Investment Advisory Council, needs the approval of the State Board of Administration, comprising the governor, chief financial officer, and attorney general. If they go […]
Michael MolineJune 11, 20184min481
The State Retirement System earned a clean bill of health during its regular checkup Monday by overseers on the Florida Investment Advisory Council. Assets have grown by 10.5 percent since the start of the fiscal year, reaching a balance of $163.3 billion — $9.8 billion ahead of last year. The state distributes benefits worth between […]
Drew WilsonApril 20, 2018
4min850
Former Democratic state Senator and CFO candidate Jeremy Ring said in a Friday email that Gov. Rick Scott hasn’t been playing by the rules when it comes to managing the Florida Retirement System. As Governor, Scott is one of three FRS trustees alongside the state CFO and Attorney General, and Ring blasted Scott in the […]
Mitch PerryFebruary 23, 2018
4min229
During his freshman year in the Florida Senate, Democrat Jeremy Ring led the fight to make Florida the first state in the nation to pass a bill to divest from Iran. Under that legislation, $1 billion in state pension funds was screened for holdings in companies doing business with or investing in Iran’s oil sector. […]
Lloyd DunkelbergerJanuary 17, 2018
5min370
Florida counties will have to contribute an additional $66 million to the state pension fund in the new budget year, according to legislation that has started moving in the Senate. As a result of a decrease in the assumed rate of investment return on the $160 billion pension fund, counties, school boards, state agencies, universities, […]