France is in the midst of massive riots over the perceived mistreatment of minority citizens by police. The riots follow shortly on the heels of massive protests against pension reforms pushed by French President Emmanuel Macron. With the country in increasing chaos, the question is, can Macron recover from this, or will the French choose […]
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UK Pension Industry Is Looking for a Scapegoat
Your Survival Guy has long observed that the average pension manager can’t live in a two percent world. And guess what—when the going gets tough, the pension manager takes on more risk to save his job rather than being a fiduciary shepherd for his flock. Now the UK is looking for someone to blame for […]
SECOND AMENDMENT ALERT: Pensions Push for Backdoor Gun Registry
For years now, the investment world has watched as pension funds and money managers have weaponized their financial power against the political opponents of left-wing Democrats. This pressure has been applied via the implementation of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards, which judge companies based on their adherence to the often flawed guidelines of the […]
Joe Biden Stands for Shootings, Pension Wipeouts, and Millions of Illegals
Pat Buchanan is on the right track as usual. He writes: Since the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 reached record highs in January, both have seen eight weeks of wipeouts of trillions of dollars in value as we approached bear-market territory by the end of last week. Stock portfolios, pensions and retirement benefit […]
Dividend “Suspensions” Not Dividend Cuts Coming Fast
Originally posted on April 2, 2020. The liberal electronic and print media will shortly be howling – with cartoon-size bold headlines – about dividend cuts. We just began the second quarter of the year. Third-quarter earnings reports will, thanks to the lying Chinese, be breathtakingly ugly. And the media will be out in full force […]
Parkland Massacre: Disgraced Florida Deputy Still Getting Pension
Scot Peterson, a former school resource officer assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, FL who resigned after failing to enter to the school to confront Nikolas Cruz, the alleged killer, is still receiving a pension of $8,702.35 per month. The pension has led to outrage as citizens, including parents of victims, blame Peterson’s […]
Pensions are Still Hiding from the Truth
For years I’ve been writing about how badly pension funds have been ignoring reality when it comes to return expectation (read a sample of these posts here, here, and here). Funds have a choice to make when they set their return expectations, they can: Shoot low, and require governments or companies to put more funding […]
What Will Pensions Buy in 2018?
Securities valuations are at the highest levels they’ve ever been. You can see on my price-to-sales ratio chart of the S&P 500 that valuations are higher today than they were during even the dotcom era. While stocks are valued at record levels, the situation in fixed income markets isn’t any better. With such high valuations […]
Fuzzy Math Can’t Hide This State’s Pension Trouble Anymore
For years I have warned against over optimistic return expectations on pension funds (See here, here, here, here, here, and here for starters). States like Illinois are known to have unrealistic pension expectations, but new rules forcing states into more rational calculations for their pension fund returns have outed Minnesota as another pension fund risk […]
As Pension Debt Crests $1.5 Trillion, States are Headed Toward Crisis
The Tax Foundation has created a map of each state’s pension funding situation. It’s not pretty. If you live in South Dakota, Oregon or Wisconsin, your state is in great shape. All three have funded their pensions over 100%. But if you rely on a state pension in Illinois or Kentucky, it could get rocky. […]
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