PERA is an enormous $64.4 billion ship that cannot just easily maneuver based on changes in the economy. It is vital to Colorado’s retirees and the state’s economy that PERA stay solvent.

Earlier this summer, Colorado PERA — the Public Employees’ Retirement Association — released its annual financial report containing another clean audit and showing earnings of more than $6 ...

Colorado Treasurer Walker Stapleton on Tuesday warned that the Colorado Public Employees’ Retirement Association’s lower-than-expected 1.9 percent return on its investments in 2011 will mean ...

The computer system PERA uses to track and pay out benefits is 40 years old – the oldest still in use by any public pension in the U.S. Colorado’s public pension board earlier this month ...

Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association, Denver, returned a net -3.5% for the fiscal year ended Dec. 31, the $45.2 billion pension fund announced in its newly released comprehensive ...

Legislators have supported many efforts to move away from fossil fuels in recent years but were reluctant to dictate investment policy for 620,000 pension-fund members.

Greg Smith, chief executive of the Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association, also will receive an incentive payment of 20 percent for leading the $47 billion, 300-employee retirement ...

First, it argues PERA is banking on unrealistic investment returns, relitigating a long-running debate in Colorado. PERA needs its portfolio to grow 7.25% a year to meet its funding targets, ...

Pension disbursements to retired state workers generated more than $6.5 billion in economic activity last year and helped support more than 35,000 jobs, according to a new study released Wednesday ...

The head of the pension fund for Colorado’s 660,000 former and current public employees was ousted by its governing board Monday. Ron Baker had led the Public Employees’ Retirement Association, known ...

In response to a letter from Robert Goodrich (Herald, April 7) regarding Colorado PERA, I’d like to state the facts as it pertains to retirement security and PERA. Unlike the author, most ...