Posted May 29, 2018 by burypensions in New Jersesy Pension. 51 Comments

The Pew Charitable Trust (Pew) put out a 147-page paper summarizing the “results of a stress test simulation analysis on the largest government pension plans in 10 states under different economic scenarios and assumptions for policymaker behavior.”

Coincidentally, New Jersey just got a law requiring stress tests so Pew may have done some of the state’s work (had the results turned out a lot rosier).



The Pew study only looks at New Jersey plans for teachers (TPAF) and the State portion of the Public Employee Retirement System (both seriously shorted by the state in recent decades) so the results look slightly worse then if the rest of the system (all PFRS and the local portion of PERS) were included.