June 8, 2020 Jane the Actuary Retirement Forbes post, “Defund The Police, Cut Pension Liabilities? The One Weird Trick That Just Might Work For Chicago” Due to the magic of pension curtailments, there are savings to be had if the Chicago Police Department were dismantled.
June 7, 2020 Jane the Actuary General Interest, Retirement Forbes post, “Frontline Workers? Heroes? The Social Insurance Problem With Our New Narrative” Are cashiers “heroes”? We’re missing the point when we use this terminology.
June 4, 2020 Jane the Actuary Retirement Forbes post, “Is Your Pension At Risk? Making Sense Of The Supreme Court Ruling On Private-Sector Pensions To fuss about whether a company has “mismanaged” its pension fund fails to understand how these funds work to begin with.