Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is urging the Teacher Retirement System not to raise health care premiums for retired teachers, arguing that state lawmakers should take on the burden of increased costs. In a ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Rumors swirled Friday that the pension system for Kentucky teachers lost huge investments in Russian banks, but a lawyer for the system said the reports are inaccurate. Beau ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Over the weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law Senate Bill 12, which increases state contributions to the Teacher Retirement System over the next five years. The goal is to pay ...

An investigation by led by former U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon has led to the ouster of the head of the state’s largest government pension plan. The huge Illinois Teachers' Retirement System confirmed ...

Illinois' largest public employee pension plan recently handed state legislators the latest bill for underfunding state employee pensions over several decades. In a painful irony, the yearly tab keeps ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A public records request to the Teacher Retirement System of Texas has revealed that the agency will spend at least $326,000 a month in rent for office space in the Indeed Tower. TRS ...

Texas state Sen. Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston, poked the bear last month when he filed two bills that would direct the Teachers Retirement System of Texas, or TRS, and Employee Retirement System of ...

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The pension fund should slowly continue to rise if state leaders follow through on Gov. Matt Bevin and the legislature’s recent commitment to provide “essentially all” of the money recommended for the ...

AUSTIN — The state’s biggest pension fund shed more than $500 million worth of investments in BlackRock — the world’s largest asset manager — to comply with a new law meant to punish companies that ...