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Sunday, October 28, 2012

''Illinois Teacher Retirement System earned less than 1 percent on its investments last year''

coming to a city near you................From Illinois Policy Institute

''On Thursday, the Teachers' Retirement System announced its annual investment returns for fiscal year 2012. You may recall that it was predicting 8.5 percent returns.

So what kind of returns did it actually get? A meager 0.76 percent. For comparison, the S&P 500 grew 7.39 percent during fiscal year 2012, while the Dow Jones Industrial average grew 7.92 percent.


''Ultimately, there are only two numbers that matter: the amount of money the pension fund will pay out for earned benefits, and the amount of money it has on hand. Between now and 2045, TRS will pay $376.5 billion to retired teachers. It has just $36.3 billion on hand. In order for these assets to cover future payouts, TRS would need to see average investment returns of more than 18.5 percent per year.''

''The simple fact is that TRS is broke. Under new accounting rules, TRS has less than 23 percent of the money it should have in the bank today in order to make its pension payments. The system doesn't even have enough money on hand to pay out benefits to the people who have already retired. Pension experts and TRS's own actuaries agree: the fund could soon be insolvent.''

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