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This will be my last entry for 2016 (huzzah), and let me actually start with some happy-ish stuff.
Some causes I support:
GoFundMe campaign for Charlie Martin – I’m a facebook friend of Charlie’s and have been following his writing on pjmedia for years.
BEAM – Bridge to Enter Advanced Math is an educational program founded by and run by one of my Mathcamp buddies, Dan Zaharopol. I have talked with some...
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Thought I’d point out some pension-related blogs/sites I often go to, though in most of these cases I’ve linked these sites repeatedly.
ACTUARIES, REPRESENT
The actuary I’ve been reading the longest re: public pensions has been John Bury, currently at Burypension blog.
Bury has been covering more than just...
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Last year, I cried All I Want for Christmas is for the 80% Myth to DIE…ain’t it just the way, but I never did get my wish.
I also didn’t get socks or a tiara (and I didn’t get them this year, either).
But rather than have a tantrum as...
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It’s that time of year again! Time for the National Conference On Public Employee Retirement Systems to update its Scrooge list to show who are verboten to have anything to do with public pensions! Shame! Shame!
Let’s go to the press release: NCPERS Expands List of Think Tanks...
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Merry Christmas! A grab bag from Christmases pastby meep
There will be no math in this post.
Okay, no additional math beyond what occurs in the stories I quote.
The math can wait til after Christmas.
CALPERS: SETTING UP A NEW DISCOUNT RATE
CalPERS board gives green light to cut assumed rate of return to 7%:
The full...
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