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What Does That Mean for You?","publishDate":1551833690,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>If all sides are declaring victory in the California Supreme Court’s pension ruling on Monday, it’s because the decision had a little something for all the combatants in the state’s pension wars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a much anticipated decision, the high court \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S239958.PDF\">upheld\u003c/a> a major rollback initiated during Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration—a reform that rescinded a long tradition that had allowed public employees to collect bigger pensions by inflating their years of service. Brown put an end to that tradition—known informally as “airtime”—in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court ruled that public employees won’t have a right to it anymore, a win for pension reformers. CalPERS has estimated Brown’s reforms, including putting the kibosh on airtime, will save government $29 billion to $38 billion over the next 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/4bbf40bf-2976-4241-bf6f-1c38232da6d3?src=embed\" title=\"Retirement Debt\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s a drop in the bucket compared to California’s overall pension obligations to teachers, firefighters, law enforcement officers and government workers—an unfunded liability of hundreds of billions of dollars—which the state, counties, cities and school districts are finding increasingly hard to manage. Pension reformers had hoped the court would open the door to bigger taxpayer savings by reversing a legal precedent called the “California Rule” that has long made it difficult to even limit the growth of public employee pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On that, the victory went to labor unions, as the court sidestepped the California Rule question. But other benefits are also being challenged in court, so it ain’t over til it’s over, both sides say.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What’s Going On?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When the Great Recession cratered state finances and the public gained awareness of generous retirement benefits, Brown was able to leverage those issues to successfully champion a package of changes from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2012/09/12/news17720/\">Public Employee Pension Reform Act of 2012\u003c/a>, also known as PEPRA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Brown did not get \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-crisis-brown/\">key changes\u003c/a> needed to slow down the growth in retirement costs, the Legislature did agree to what the governor called the “biggest rollback to public pension benefits in the history of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/b05b9c14-3a19-4090-b8ae-8c5f9d153698?src=embed\" title=\"Supreme Court on Pensions\" width=\"500\" height=\"634\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Among other money-saving measures, Brown was able to raise the retirement age for new employees, ban retroactive pension increases, stop practices such as hoarding vacation and sick time to inflate calculations for retirement benefits, and ban the purchase of additional years of service, known as “airtime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple labor unions sued, arguing that Brown’s 2012 changes infringed on their employer’s contractual obligation to provide retirement benefits at the level that was promised on their first day of work. That premise—the California Rule—left state and local governments with little room for savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/1-s239958-apps-pet-rev-020817.pdf\">challenge\u003c/a> brought by Cal Fire Local 2881, the firefighters union argued that the ability to purchase additional years of service credit toward retirement, known as “airtime,” or ARS credit, is a pension benefit that employees rely on as part of their decision to go into public service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s attorneys \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/6-s239958-intervener-resp-state-ca-answer-brief-merits-110717.pdf\">countered\u003c/a> that airtime was never intended by the Legislature to be a vested right and never negotiated through collective bargaining. Therefore, they said, the state can take it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the Supreme Court sided with Brown on airtime, but did not take up the California Rule because, they found, airtime wasn’t covered by it as a contractual benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why Does This Matter?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>State and local governments are facing massive retirement burdens. Unfunded liabilities total some $139 billion at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and $107 billion at the California State Teachers' Retirement System. There’s a concern that retirement obligations are starting to crowd out public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have only have so much money and more is going to pay for pensions and retiree health care for work that was done in the past, that’s less money for roads, schools, health care, public safety and all the other services Californians need from their government today.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/93ddb2d5-053f-410c-ba5e-e522dad634a5?src=embed\" title=\"Chuck Reed\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Schools are a prime example. Despite billions more in state funding, much of the growth in education spending has been diverted to pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Finance and Legislative Analyst’s Office say schools may need to use well over half of all new money to cover their \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-teacher-pension-debt/\">growing pension obligations\u003c/a>. This is true even though the California State Teachers’ Retirement System has made investment gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Happens Now?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It means the status quo. Brown gets to claim victory on his pension changes, pension reform advocates will be able to argue that not every benefit need be forever, and labor unions will still be able to use the California Rule as a shield against sweeping change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are a state employee, your benefits remain the same. The state stopped offering airtime in 2013, and new employees weren’t given the option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a taxpayer, you can take comfort in the knowledge that Brown saved you tens of billions of dollars and that the government workers who served you are enjoying the comfortable retirement you promised. Or, if you like, you can stew over the hundreds of billions of dollars in retiree benefits that you and your children will have to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But otherwise, little will change on the current pension landscape, including the legal challenges over Brown’s reforms. At least two PEPRA cases are in the pipeline. 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Pension reformers had hoped the court would open the door to bigger taxpayer savings by reversing a legal precedent called the “California Rule” that has long made it difficult to even limit the growth of public employee pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On that, the victory went to labor unions, as the court sidestepped the California Rule question. But other benefits are also being challenged in court, so it ain’t over til it’s over, both sides say.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What’s Going On?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When the Great Recession cratered state finances and the public gained awareness of generous retirement benefits, Brown was able to leverage those issues to successfully champion a package of changes from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2012/09/12/news17720/\">Public Employee Pension Reform Act of 2012\u003c/a>, also known as PEPRA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Brown did not get \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-crisis-brown/\">key changes\u003c/a> needed to slow down the growth in retirement costs, the Legislature did agree to what the governor called the “biggest rollback to public pension benefits in the history of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/b05b9c14-3a19-4090-b8ae-8c5f9d153698?src=embed\" title=\"Supreme Court on Pensions\" width=\"500\" height=\"634\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Among other money-saving measures, Brown was able to raise the retirement age for new employees, ban retroactive pension increases, stop practices such as hoarding vacation and sick time to inflate calculations for retirement benefits, and ban the purchase of additional years of service, known as “airtime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple labor unions sued, arguing that Brown’s 2012 changes infringed on their employer’s contractual obligation to provide retirement benefits at the level that was promised on their first day of work. That premise—the California Rule—left state and local governments with little room for savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/1-s239958-apps-pet-rev-020817.pdf\">challenge\u003c/a> brought by Cal Fire Local 2881, the firefighters union argued that the ability to purchase additional years of service credit toward retirement, known as “airtime,” or ARS credit, is a pension benefit that employees rely on as part of their decision to go into public service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s attorneys \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/6-s239958-intervener-resp-state-ca-answer-brief-merits-110717.pdf\">countered\u003c/a> that airtime was never intended by the Legislature to be a vested right and never negotiated through collective bargaining. Therefore, they said, the state can take it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the Supreme Court sided with Brown on airtime, but did not take up the California Rule because, they found, airtime wasn’t covered by it as a contractual benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why Does This Matter?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>State and local governments are facing massive retirement burdens. Unfunded liabilities total some $139 billion at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and $107 billion at the California State Teachers' Retirement System. There’s a concern that retirement obligations are starting to crowd out public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have only have so much money and more is going to pay for pensions and retiree health care for work that was done in the past, that’s less money for roads, schools, health care, public safety and all the other services Californians need from their government today.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/93ddb2d5-053f-410c-ba5e-e522dad634a5?src=embed\" title=\"Chuck Reed\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Schools are a prime example. Despite billions more in state funding, much of the growth in education spending has been diverted to pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Finance and Legislative Analyst’s Office say schools may need to use well over half of all new money to cover their \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-teacher-pension-debt/\">growing pension obligations\u003c/a>. This is true even though the California State Teachers’ Retirement System has made investment gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Happens Now?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It means the status quo. Brown gets to claim victory on his pension changes, pension reform advocates will be able to argue that not every benefit need be forever, and labor unions will still be able to use the California Rule as a shield against sweeping change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are a state employee, your benefits remain the same. The state stopped offering airtime in 2013, and new employees weren’t given the option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a taxpayer, you can take comfort in the knowledge that Brown saved you tens of billions of dollars and that the government workers who served you are enjoying the comfortable retirement you promised. Or, if you like, you can stew over the hundreds of billions of dollars in retiree benefits that you and your children will have to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But otherwise, little will change on the current pension landscape, including the legal challenges over Brown’s reforms. At least two PEPRA cases are in the pipeline. No briefing dates have been scheduled yet.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11730837/everyone-is-saying-they-just-won-a-big-court-case-on-pensions-what-does-that-mean-for-you","authors":["byline_news_11730837"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_2783","news_30","news_118"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11730848","label":"source_news_11730837"},"news_11710822":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11710822","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11710822","score":null,"sort":[1544220455000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"jerry-browns-last-stand-on-pension-reform","title":"Jerry Brown’s Last Stand on Pension Reform","publishDate":1544220455,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Six years ago, as California strained to emerge from the Great Recession, Gov. Jerry Brown worked a minor political miracle — a rebalancing of the massive state pension systems for public employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shuttling between unions and the strapped governments on the hook for public sector benefits and paychecks, Brown scaled back some of the rules and perks that have made public sector workers more secure, arguing that the pain would be worth it. Results were mixed: The largest benefit rollback in state history yielded some savings, but not enough to entirely fix a pension commitment that taxpayers are increasingly finding hard to manage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as Brown prepares to leave office — his own pension at hand, after five decades in public service — even that hard-won modicum of fiscal change could be loosened. In a case that went to oral arguments this week, the California Supreme Court is weighing a key legal precedent that could restore the generous pension formulas Brown worked so hard to tighten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11710843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/California-Supreme-Court-Justices-e1544215421577.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11710843\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/California-Supreme-Court-Justices-e1544215421577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1628\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/California-Supreme-Court-Justices-e1544215421577.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/California-Supreme-Court-Justices-e1544215421577-160x136.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/California-Supreme-Court-Justices-e1544215421577-800x678.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/California-Supreme-Court-Justices-e1544215421577-1020x865.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/California-Supreme-Court-Justices-e1544215421577-1200x1018.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Supreme Court justices in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Judicial Council of California)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brown, who at 80 has already surpassed the average retirement age of state workers by 22 years, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-retirement-pension-debt-explainer/#What-do-the-courts-say\">predicts\u003c/a> that he’ll win. But Wednesday’s proceedings made it clear that workers’ arguments are also compelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the ruling, Brown’s successor, Gavin Newsom, will have to cope with the outcome. And — though the state’s unfunded liabilities persist, and economists warn another recession could be just around the corner — Newsom will face a very different political landscape. Should California land in another downturn, Brown’s pension reform miracle could be difficult, if not impossible, to repeat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case heard by the high court this week involves the California Rule, a legal precedent that requires the state to compensate public employees if their retirement benefits are lessened. In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/1-s239958-apps-pet-rev-020817.pdf\">challenge\u003c/a> brought by Cal Fire Local 2881, the firefighters union argues that the ability to purchase additional years of service credit toward retirement, known as “airtime,” is a pension benefit that employees rely on as part of their decision to go into public service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/_/eIcXwSdoRKljMPslJeSG?src=embed\" title=\"Social: Retirement Debt\" width=\"800\" height=\"790\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s attorneys \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/6-s239958-intervener-resp-state-ca-answer-brief-merits-110717.pdf\">counter\u003c/a> that airtime was never intended by the Legislature to be a vested right and never negotiated through collective bargaining. Therefore, the state can take it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone agrees that workers are entitled to the pensions they earn for work that’s already been done. And the argument might seem to be over a procedural technicality on the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if the court sides with Brown, it could open the possibility of future governors and legislatures modifying current employees’ pensions for prospective work, and perhaps setting a new precedent in which already negotiated benefits are fair game. If the court sides with the union, it would bind the state’s finances and commit taxpayers to paying already expensive retirement benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703925/high-expectations-on-the-left-for-governor-elect-gavin-newsom\">High Expectations on the Left for Governor-Elect Gavin Newsom\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703925/high-expectations-on-the-left-for-governor-elect-gavin-newsom\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/NewsomElex-1180x785.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>On a larger scale, the case also could mark the end of a Brown-led era of fiscal reform in Sacramento. A blue-state Democrat with a lifelong tendency against the spending his party was known for, the frugal Brown had the experience and political capital to challenge public employee unions who typically hold sway over Democratic politicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom is newer and younger, and won his office in part with strong union backing. In campaign statements, he pledged to unions that he will protect their pensions; in fact, state firefighters \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpf.org/go/cpf/political-action/firefighters-for-gavin/\">cited\u003c/a> Newsom’s commitment as one reason for giving the governor-elect their endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Democrats, who have been a majority for some time, also with strong backing overall from organized labor, only gained ground in the November election. As the Legislature convened on Monday, they had not just a supermajority but a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/a-deep-blue-sea-of-california-lawmakers-take-oath-of-office-today/\">“mega-majority”\u003c/a> in both chambers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of those developments favor the priorities of public employee unions, as does the seemingly flush economy of the moment. California is projecting a $15 billion surplus this year, compared to a $27 billion deficit when Brown returned for his second stint in the governor’s office. The unemployment rate stood at 4.1 percent in October, compared to 12.1 percent when Brown was sworn in in January 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11710837\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11710837 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114-e1544218303260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114-e1544218303260.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114-e1544218303260-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114-e1544218303260-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114-e1544218303260-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114-e1544218303260-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Governor Jerry Brown announces his public employee pension reform plan October 27, 2011 at the State Capitol in Sacramento, California. \u003ccite>(Max Whittaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the Great Recession cratered state finances and the public gained awareness of generous retirement benefits, Brown was able to leverage those issues to successfully champion a package of changes from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2012/09/12/news17720/\">Public Employee Pension Reform Act of 2012\u003c/a> with tacit approval from labor leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Brown did not get \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-crisis-brown/\">key changes\u003c/a> needed to slow down the growth in retirement costs, the Legislature did agree to what the governor called the “biggest rollback to public pension benefits in the history of California.” Among other money-saving measures, Brown was able to raise the retirement age for new employees, ban retroactive pension increases, stop practices such as hoarding vacation and sick time to inflate calculations for retirement benefits, and ban the purchase of additional years of service, known as “airtime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple labor unions sued, arguing that Brown’s 2012 changes infringed on their employer’s contractual obligation to provide retirement benefits at the level that was promised on their first day of work. That premise—the California Rule—left state and local governments with little room for savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to Wednesday’s high court hearing, lower courts weighed in on the precedent with mixed messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11243683/a-case-study-on-pension-reform-san-joses-grand-compromise\">A Case Study on Pension Reform: San Jose's Grand Compromise\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11243683/a-case-study-on-pension-reform-san-joses-grand-compromise\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS14834_iStock_000047219414_Large-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In a 2016 \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/revpub/A139610.PDF\">ruling\u003c/a> upholding a lower court’s decision, Justice James A. Richman of California’s First District Court of Appeal broke from decades of court decisions in finding the Legislature can alter pension formulas for current employees and reduce their anticipated retirement benefits. He wrote that a public employee has a right to a “reasonable” pension, not “the most optimal formula of calculating the pension.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But another appeals court came to a different conclusion about the “California rule” by deciding in favor of union employees in Alameda, Contra Costa and Merced counties. While the justices agreed there are limits to the California Rule, they said benefit adjustments require “compelling evidence” showing that the changes are necessary to the success of the pension system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court agreed to take up the issue and is first hearing the firefighters’ case over whether airtime is a vested right. While Adams, for the firefighters union, said he hopes the court will recognize that airtime is earned through service, Brown’s lawyers argue taking away the optional benefit doesn’t mean the employee gets less in pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s lawyers wrote in a brief that although airtime was thought to be cost neutral, employees could purchase fictional years of credit \u003ca href=\"http://majlabor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/PA-20171106-State-Answer-Brief-on-the-Merits-Air-Time-00042485xDC64Ax.pdf#page=10\">“often as much as 40 percent below the actual cost.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System is carrying $111 billion in unfunded liabilities and the California State Teachers Retirement System faces $76 billion in unfunded liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Wednesday's \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/41490.htm\">oral argument\u003c/a> in Los Angeles, the justices seemed to be searching for where to draw the line that would protect workers without giving them limitless retirement benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye questioned labor attorney Greg Adam about how airtime is protected by the state Constitution when the employee hasn’t performed the work to earn it. And Justice Goodwin Liu wondered aloud whether pension rights extend to life insurance, health insurance or a sabbatical leave that may be offered during employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681898/california-teacher-pension-debt-swamps-school-budgets\">California Teacher Pension Debt Swamps School Budgets\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681898/california-teacher-pension-debt-swamps-school-budgets\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Teachers-Pension_003-1280x800-1180x738.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Then Liu turned to Brown’s attorney, Rei Onishi, to ask if the state has a right to change benefit formulas midstream in a worker’s career, which strikes at the heart of the California rule. Onishi said yes, if it applies to prospective work. He reasoned that because a worker hasn’t earned the benefit, it’s not an impairment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That brought on questions from Justice Leondra Kruger about whether the Legislature could wipe away benefits for a class of existing state employees going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Onishi responded that wouldn’t be likely because “other cases of this court have said you have a right to a substantial and reasonable pension as soon as you begin employment. I think completely terminating the system going forward, prospectively, would certainly raise questions about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the hearing focused on legalities, the realities of Democratic politics weren’t far from the courtroom. In an unusual move, the governor had his own attorneys argue the case rather than Attorney General Xavier Becerra—a choice that \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/11/27/editorial-brown-comes-to-taxpayers-defense-on-pensions/\">fueled speculation\u003c/a> that Brown hoped to shield the attorney general, a Democratic elected official, from union pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And prior to the hearing, the court dodged a thorny question about whether Brown’s most recent nominee to the bench could be impartial. Last month, Brown nominated long-time aide Joshua Groban, who would have provided him counsel on many legal matters. While it wasn’t known if Groban was involved in the case brought by the firefighters union, there was an open question about whether he would have to recuse himself—a question successfully sidelined when Groban’s confirmation hearing was set for Dec. 21, after this week’s arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11710882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-1058496338-e1544218878939.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11710882\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-1058496338-e1544218878939.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1291\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-1058496338-e1544218878939.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-1058496338-e1544218878939-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-1058496338-e1544218878939-800x538.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-1058496338-e1544218878939-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-1058496338-e1544218878939-1200x807.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom speaks during election night event on November 6, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gov.-elect Newsom has said he would prefer to stay out of the courts to resolve pension disputes. When CALmatters asked him if the state should be allowed to renegotiate the future benefits of current workers, he suggested a legal fight wasn’t necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even with the California rule, we have the tools through collective bargaining to negotiate reforms and commensurate offsets,” \u003ca href=\"https://elections.calmatters.org/2018/statewide-postings/governor-of-california/\">Newsom said then\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The economy might change his mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Economists have been warning of an inevitable downturn; Wall Street losses translate to deficits here because of California’s reliance on capital gains taxes. That vulnerability, even more than politics, says Jack Pitney, professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, could force Newsom to confront pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite his reputation for being more progressive, the economic reality might end up forcing prudence,” Pitney said. “As he contemplates the governorship, he’s aware of the constraints. He’s a smart guy and he knows how difficult the pension situation is going to be in the years ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org\">CALmatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In a case that went to oral arguments this week, the California Supreme Court is weighing a key legal precedent that could restore the generous pension formulas Brown worked so hard to tighten.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1544220455,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":38,"wordCount":1823},"headData":{"title":"Jerry Brown’s Last Stand on Pension Reform | KQED","description":"In a case that went to oral arguments this week, the California Supreme Court is weighing a key legal precedent that could restore the generous pension formulas Brown worked so hard to tighten.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11710822 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11710822","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/12/07/jerry-browns-last-stand-on-pension-reform/","disqusTitle":"Jerry Brown’s Last Stand on Pension Reform","source":"CALmatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/author/judy-lin/\">Judy Lin\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11710822/jerry-browns-last-stand-on-pension-reform","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Six years ago, as California strained to emerge from the Great Recession, Gov. Jerry Brown worked a minor political miracle — a rebalancing of the massive state pension systems for public employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shuttling between unions and the strapped governments on the hook for public sector benefits and paychecks, Brown scaled back some of the rules and perks that have made public sector workers more secure, arguing that the pain would be worth it. Results were mixed: The largest benefit rollback in state history yielded some savings, but not enough to entirely fix a pension commitment that taxpayers are increasingly finding hard to manage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as Brown prepares to leave office — his own pension at hand, after five decades in public service — even that hard-won modicum of fiscal change could be loosened. In a case that went to oral arguments this week, the California Supreme Court is weighing a key legal precedent that could restore the generous pension formulas Brown worked so hard to tighten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11710843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/California-Supreme-Court-Justices-e1544215421577.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11710843\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/California-Supreme-Court-Justices-e1544215421577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1628\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/California-Supreme-Court-Justices-e1544215421577.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/California-Supreme-Court-Justices-e1544215421577-160x136.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/California-Supreme-Court-Justices-e1544215421577-800x678.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/California-Supreme-Court-Justices-e1544215421577-1020x865.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/California-Supreme-Court-Justices-e1544215421577-1200x1018.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Supreme Court justices in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Judicial Council of California)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brown, who at 80 has already surpassed the average retirement age of state workers by 22 years, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-retirement-pension-debt-explainer/#What-do-the-courts-say\">predicts\u003c/a> that he’ll win. But Wednesday’s proceedings made it clear that workers’ arguments are also compelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the ruling, Brown’s successor, Gavin Newsom, will have to cope with the outcome. And — though the state’s unfunded liabilities persist, and economists warn another recession could be just around the corner — Newsom will face a very different political landscape. Should California land in another downturn, Brown’s pension reform miracle could be difficult, if not impossible, to repeat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case heard by the high court this week involves the California Rule, a legal precedent that requires the state to compensate public employees if their retirement benefits are lessened. In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/1-s239958-apps-pet-rev-020817.pdf\">challenge\u003c/a> brought by Cal Fire Local 2881, the firefighters union argues that the ability to purchase additional years of service credit toward retirement, known as “airtime,” is a pension benefit that employees rely on as part of their decision to go into public service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/_/eIcXwSdoRKljMPslJeSG?src=embed\" title=\"Social: Retirement Debt\" width=\"800\" height=\"790\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s attorneys \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/6-s239958-intervener-resp-state-ca-answer-brief-merits-110717.pdf\">counter\u003c/a> that airtime was never intended by the Legislature to be a vested right and never negotiated through collective bargaining. Therefore, the state can take it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone agrees that workers are entitled to the pensions they earn for work that’s already been done. And the argument might seem to be over a procedural technicality on the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if the court sides with Brown, it could open the possibility of future governors and legislatures modifying current employees’ pensions for prospective work, and perhaps setting a new precedent in which already negotiated benefits are fair game. If the court sides with the union, it would bind the state’s finances and commit taxpayers to paying already expensive retirement benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703925/high-expectations-on-the-left-for-governor-elect-gavin-newsom\">High Expectations on the Left for Governor-Elect Gavin Newsom\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703925/high-expectations-on-the-left-for-governor-elect-gavin-newsom\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/NewsomElex-1180x785.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>On a larger scale, the case also could mark the end of a Brown-led era of fiscal reform in Sacramento. A blue-state Democrat with a lifelong tendency against the spending his party was known for, the frugal Brown had the experience and political capital to challenge public employee unions who typically hold sway over Democratic politicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom is newer and younger, and won his office in part with strong union backing. In campaign statements, he pledged to unions that he will protect their pensions; in fact, state firefighters \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpf.org/go/cpf/political-action/firefighters-for-gavin/\">cited\u003c/a> Newsom’s commitment as one reason for giving the governor-elect their endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Democrats, who have been a majority for some time, also with strong backing overall from organized labor, only gained ground in the November election. As the Legislature convened on Monday, they had not just a supermajority but a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/a-deep-blue-sea-of-california-lawmakers-take-oath-of-office-today/\">“mega-majority”\u003c/a> in both chambers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of those developments favor the priorities of public employee unions, as does the seemingly flush economy of the moment. California is projecting a $15 billion surplus this year, compared to a $27 billion deficit when Brown returned for his second stint in the governor’s office. The unemployment rate stood at 4.1 percent in October, compared to 12.1 percent when Brown was sworn in in January 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11710837\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11710837 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114-e1544218303260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114-e1544218303260.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114-e1544218303260-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114-e1544218303260-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114-e1544218303260-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114-e1544218303260-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Governor Jerry Brown announces his public employee pension reform plan October 27, 2011 at the State Capitol in Sacramento, California. \u003ccite>(Max Whittaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the Great Recession cratered state finances and the public gained awareness of generous retirement benefits, Brown was able to leverage those issues to successfully champion a package of changes from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2012/09/12/news17720/\">Public Employee Pension Reform Act of 2012\u003c/a> with tacit approval from labor leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Brown did not get \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-crisis-brown/\">key changes\u003c/a> needed to slow down the growth in retirement costs, the Legislature did agree to what the governor called the “biggest rollback to public pension benefits in the history of California.” Among other money-saving measures, Brown was able to raise the retirement age for new employees, ban retroactive pension increases, stop practices such as hoarding vacation and sick time to inflate calculations for retirement benefits, and ban the purchase of additional years of service, known as “airtime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple labor unions sued, arguing that Brown’s 2012 changes infringed on their employer’s contractual obligation to provide retirement benefits at the level that was promised on their first day of work. That premise—the California Rule—left state and local governments with little room for savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to Wednesday’s high court hearing, lower courts weighed in on the precedent with mixed messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11243683/a-case-study-on-pension-reform-san-joses-grand-compromise\">A Case Study on Pension Reform: San Jose's Grand Compromise\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11243683/a-case-study-on-pension-reform-san-joses-grand-compromise\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS14834_iStock_000047219414_Large-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In a 2016 \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/revpub/A139610.PDF\">ruling\u003c/a> upholding a lower court’s decision, Justice James A. Richman of California’s First District Court of Appeal broke from decades of court decisions in finding the Legislature can alter pension formulas for current employees and reduce their anticipated retirement benefits. He wrote that a public employee has a right to a “reasonable” pension, not “the most optimal formula of calculating the pension.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But another appeals court came to a different conclusion about the “California rule” by deciding in favor of union employees in Alameda, Contra Costa and Merced counties. While the justices agreed there are limits to the California Rule, they said benefit adjustments require “compelling evidence” showing that the changes are necessary to the success of the pension system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court agreed to take up the issue and is first hearing the firefighters’ case over whether airtime is a vested right. While Adams, for the firefighters union, said he hopes the court will recognize that airtime is earned through service, Brown’s lawyers argue taking away the optional benefit doesn’t mean the employee gets less in pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s lawyers wrote in a brief that although airtime was thought to be cost neutral, employees could purchase fictional years of credit \u003ca href=\"http://majlabor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/PA-20171106-State-Answer-Brief-on-the-Merits-Air-Time-00042485xDC64Ax.pdf#page=10\">“often as much as 40 percent below the actual cost.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System is carrying $111 billion in unfunded liabilities and the California State Teachers Retirement System faces $76 billion in unfunded liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Wednesday's \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/41490.htm\">oral argument\u003c/a> in Los Angeles, the justices seemed to be searching for where to draw the line that would protect workers without giving them limitless retirement benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye questioned labor attorney Greg Adam about how airtime is protected by the state Constitution when the employee hasn’t performed the work to earn it. And Justice Goodwin Liu wondered aloud whether pension rights extend to life insurance, health insurance or a sabbatical leave that may be offered during employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681898/california-teacher-pension-debt-swamps-school-budgets\">California Teacher Pension Debt Swamps School Budgets\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681898/california-teacher-pension-debt-swamps-school-budgets\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Teachers-Pension_003-1280x800-1180x738.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Then Liu turned to Brown’s attorney, Rei Onishi, to ask if the state has a right to change benefit formulas midstream in a worker’s career, which strikes at the heart of the California rule. Onishi said yes, if it applies to prospective work. He reasoned that because a worker hasn’t earned the benefit, it’s not an impairment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That brought on questions from Justice Leondra Kruger about whether the Legislature could wipe away benefits for a class of existing state employees going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Onishi responded that wouldn’t be likely because “other cases of this court have said you have a right to a substantial and reasonable pension as soon as you begin employment. I think completely terminating the system going forward, prospectively, would certainly raise questions about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the hearing focused on legalities, the realities of Democratic politics weren’t far from the courtroom. In an unusual move, the governor had his own attorneys argue the case rather than Attorney General Xavier Becerra—a choice that \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/11/27/editorial-brown-comes-to-taxpayers-defense-on-pensions/\">fueled speculation\u003c/a> that Brown hoped to shield the attorney general, a Democratic elected official, from union pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And prior to the hearing, the court dodged a thorny question about whether Brown’s most recent nominee to the bench could be impartial. Last month, Brown nominated long-time aide Joshua Groban, who would have provided him counsel on many legal matters. While it wasn’t known if Groban was involved in the case brought by the firefighters union, there was an open question about whether he would have to recuse himself—a question successfully sidelined when Groban’s confirmation hearing was set for Dec. 21, after this week’s arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11710882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-1058496338-e1544218878939.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11710882\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-1058496338-e1544218878939.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1291\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-1058496338-e1544218878939.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-1058496338-e1544218878939-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-1058496338-e1544218878939-800x538.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-1058496338-e1544218878939-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-1058496338-e1544218878939-1200x807.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom speaks during election night event on November 6, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gov.-elect Newsom has said he would prefer to stay out of the courts to resolve pension disputes. When CALmatters asked him if the state should be allowed to renegotiate the future benefits of current workers, he suggested a legal fight wasn’t necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even with the California rule, we have the tools through collective bargaining to negotiate reforms and commensurate offsets,” \u003ca href=\"https://elections.calmatters.org/2018/statewide-postings/governor-of-california/\">Newsom said then\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The economy might change his mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Economists have been warning of an inevitable downturn; Wall Street losses translate to deficits here because of California’s reliance on capital gains taxes. That vulnerability, even more than politics, says Jack Pitney, professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, could force Newsom to confront pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite his reputation for being more progressive, the economic reality might end up forcing prudence,” Pitney said. “As he contemplates the governorship, he’s aware of the constraints. He’s a smart guy and he knows how difficult the pension situation is going to be in the years ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org\">CALmatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11710822/jerry-browns-last-stand-on-pension-reform","authors":["byline_news_11710822"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8"],"tags":["news_6383","news_4972","news_3651","news_2783","news_16","news_30","news_908"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11710842","label":"source_news_11710822"},"news_11656554":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11656554","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11656554","score":null,"sort":[1521477442000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"candidate-for-governor-says-california-pension-fund-should-divest-from-guns","title":"Candidate for Governor Says California Pension Fund Should Divest From Gun Sellers","publishDate":1521477442,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Families of mass shooting victims are joining California State Treasurer John Chiang in calling on the nation's largest public pension fund to stop investing in companies that sell assault weapons and devices that allow guns to fire more rapidly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiang will speak Monday at a board meeting of the California Public Employees' Retirement System alongside family members of people who died in the 2015 terror attack that killed 14 people in San Bernardino and advocates for stricter gun laws. The wife of a high school teacher who died in the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, sent a letter supporting Chiang's effort. Chiang, a Democrat, is running for governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Enough is enough,\" Chiang told The Associated Press in an interview. \"You have to go to what moves people, and we know money moves people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiang \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article182142846.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">asked in October\u003c/a>, after the Las Vegas mass shooting, for CalPERS and the state's teacher pension fund, known as CalSTRS, to sell its stock in companies that sell \"military-style assault weapons\" and devices such as bump stocks that help simulate automatic weapons. Monday is his first in-person call for action. California severely restricts the sale and possession of assault-style weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The February shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has spurred fresh efforts to put financial pressure on the National Rifle Association and companies that make and sell guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Students Walkout to Protest Gun Violence\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11655692/photos-bay-area-students-join-national-walkout-to-end-gun-violence\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS29863_IMG_4179-qut-800x533.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11655979\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS29863_IMG_4179-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS29863_IMG_4179-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS29863_IMG_4179-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS29863_IMG_4179-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS29863_IMG_4179-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS29863_IMG_4179-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS29863_IMG_4179-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS29863_IMG_4179-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS29863_IMG_4179-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11655297/thousands-of-bay-area-students-join-national-walkout-to-end-gun-violence\" target=\"_blank\">Thousands of Bay Area Students Join National Walkout to End Gun Violence\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"We keep having these mass shootings,\" said Robert Velasco, whose 27-year-old daughter, Yvette, was killed in San Bernardino. \"If we can encourage them to divest in companies, wholesalers and retailers, of these types of weapons it could send a message throughout the country to other institutional pensions to do the same.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalPERS has a combined roughly $850 million in holdings in Dick's Sporting Goods, Walmart, Kroger, Big 5 Sporting Goods and Sportsman's Warehouse Holdings. The fund's total value is $354 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fund approached all five in the fall, asking them to stop selling assault weapons. Following the Florida shooting, Dick's, Walmart and Kroger announced they would\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11652707\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> stop selling assault-style guns\u003c/a> and would raise the age for firearm purchase to 21. Chiang attributed CalPERS efforts as one pressure point that helped make change. New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois and New York are also discussing divesting from gun-related companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But experts, including at California's pension fund, have long questioned the financial and political effectiveness of divestment. By divesting, shareholders give up their power to exert influence and often times simply turn over the shares to other owners who may not take the same political or social stance. As of June 2017, CalPERS' various divestment initiatives had cost the system more than $8 billion, according to a divestment memo put together by the fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's considerable evidence that divestment is an ineffective strategy for achieving social or political goals since the usual consequence is often a mere transfer of ownership,\" CalPERS' investment office, wrote in a presentation for the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, using divestment to make political statements is a popular tactic in California. The pension fund decided in 2016 to sell off the last of its tobacco investments and has similarly started reducing its investments in coal. The state began divesting from gun manufacturers in 2013 following the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalSTRS will present research on its holdings in gun retailers in May.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'Enough is enough,' says State Treasurer John Chiang. 'You have to go to what moves people, and we know money moves people.'","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1521495867,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":582},"headData":{"title":"Candidate for Governor Says California Pension Fund Should Divest From Gun Sellers | KQED","description":"'Enough is enough,' says State Treasurer John Chiang. 'You have to go to what moves people, and we know money moves people.'","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11656554 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11656554","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/03/19/candidate-for-governor-says-california-pension-fund-should-divest-from-guns/","disqusTitle":"Candidate for Governor Says California Pension Fund Should Divest From Gun Sellers","source":"Associated Press","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>Kathleen Ronayne\u003c/br>Associated Press\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11656554/candidate-for-governor-says-california-pension-fund-should-divest-from-guns","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Families of mass shooting victims are joining California State Treasurer John Chiang in calling on the nation's largest public pension fund to stop investing in companies that sell assault weapons and devices that allow guns to fire more rapidly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiang will speak Monday at a board meeting of the California Public Employees' Retirement System alongside family members of people who died in the 2015 terror attack that killed 14 people in San Bernardino and advocates for stricter gun laws. The wife of a high school teacher who died in the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, sent a letter supporting Chiang's effort. Chiang, a Democrat, is running for governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Enough is enough,\" Chiang told The Associated Press in an interview. \"You have to go to what moves people, and we know money moves people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiang \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article182142846.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">asked in October\u003c/a>, after the Las Vegas mass shooting, for CalPERS and the state's teacher pension fund, known as CalSTRS, to sell its stock in companies that sell \"military-style assault weapons\" and devices such as bump stocks that help simulate automatic weapons. Monday is his first in-person call for action. California severely restricts the sale and possession of assault-style weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The February shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has spurred fresh efforts to put financial pressure on the National Rifle Association and companies that make and sell guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Students Walkout to Protest Gun Violence\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11655692/photos-bay-area-students-join-national-walkout-to-end-gun-violence\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS29863_IMG_4179-qut-800x533.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11655979\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS29863_IMG_4179-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS29863_IMG_4179-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS29863_IMG_4179-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS29863_IMG_4179-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS29863_IMG_4179-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS29863_IMG_4179-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS29863_IMG_4179-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS29863_IMG_4179-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS29863_IMG_4179-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11655297/thousands-of-bay-area-students-join-national-walkout-to-end-gun-violence\" target=\"_blank\">Thousands of Bay Area Students Join National Walkout to End Gun Violence\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"We keep having these mass shootings,\" said Robert Velasco, whose 27-year-old daughter, Yvette, was killed in San Bernardino. \"If we can encourage them to divest in companies, wholesalers and retailers, of these types of weapons it could send a message throughout the country to other institutional pensions to do the same.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalPERS has a combined roughly $850 million in holdings in Dick's Sporting Goods, Walmart, Kroger, Big 5 Sporting Goods and Sportsman's Warehouse Holdings. The fund's total value is $354 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fund approached all five in the fall, asking them to stop selling assault weapons. Following the Florida shooting, Dick's, Walmart and Kroger announced they would\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11652707\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> stop selling assault-style guns\u003c/a> and would raise the age for firearm purchase to 21. Chiang attributed CalPERS efforts as one pressure point that helped make change. New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois and New York are also discussing divesting from gun-related companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But experts, including at California's pension fund, have long questioned the financial and political effectiveness of divestment. By divesting, shareholders give up their power to exert influence and often times simply turn over the shares to other owners who may not take the same political or social stance. As of June 2017, CalPERS' various divestment initiatives had cost the system more than $8 billion, according to a divestment memo put together by the fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's considerable evidence that divestment is an ineffective strategy for achieving social or political goals since the usual consequence is often a mere transfer of ownership,\" CalPERS' investment office, wrote in a presentation for the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, using divestment to make political statements is a popular tactic in California. The pension fund decided in 2016 to sell off the last of its tobacco investments and has similarly started reducing its investments in coal. The state began divesting from gun manufacturers in 2013 following the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalSTRS will present research on its holdings in gun retailers in May.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11656554/candidate-for-governor-says-california-pension-fund-should-divest-from-guns","authors":["byline_news_11656554"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_2783","news_1103","news_592","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_11656556","label":"source_news_11656554"},"news_11378925":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11378925","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11378925","score":null,"sort":[1490686222000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"lawmakers-look-to-california-retirement-funds-to-protest-trump","title":"Lawmakers Look to California Retirement Funds to Protest Trump","publishDate":1490686222,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>In the 1980s, California effectively withheld investment in South Africa to pressure leaders there to drop its apartheid policy. Now, the nation’s largest public retirement fund is facing a similar pressure aimed at protesting President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) is huge, valued at \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/forms-publications/calpers-at-a-glance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">more than $300 billion\u003c/a>. Decisions on where to put its money give CalPERS potentially large leverage with companies and industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblyman Phil Ting has \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB946\" target=\"_blank\">introduced a bill\u003c/a> that would encourage CalPERS and the State Teachers Retirement System to divest from companies involved in the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/23/california-companies-vying-to-build-trumps-wall/\" target=\"_blank\">construction of a wall\u003c/a> along the Mexican border. Ting says the reasoning is simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are corporations and corporations respond to money,\" he says. \"These are two of the largest investors in the world and that’s one of the only ways I think they would get the message.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"J8CN57MIgV2eJ0uBeuHsJT2Wt5FFIRpc\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting is not alone in his thinking. Over the years CalPERS has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/board-agendas/201702/invest/item06b-01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">called on to divest\u003c/a> from coal companies, the tobacco industry, firearms and various countries, among other things. Ting says his bill sends a message that California welcomes immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But CalPERS Chief Operating Investment Officer Wylie Tollettee says the fund is not in the business of making political statements. Instead the focus is on evaluating the risk and reward of investments. And Tollettee says CalPERS increasingly prefers to focus on engaging with companies rather than divesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Own the company, be a long-term holder, be an active owner, care about what that company’s behavior is in the marketplace,\" he says. \"You’re going to be much more effective if you’re an owner and have a vote of your shares with that company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Mitchell is a professor emeritus at UCLA’s Schools of Management and Public Affairs. He agrees divesting isn’t especially effective in bringing about corporate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially what happens is CalPERS sells the stock to somebody else who doesn’t have those particular interest or concerns and the stock price is largely unaffected,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell says CalPERS needs to maintain a diverse investment portfolio in order to meet its pension obligations.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The election of Donald Trump is reigniting use of a protest tool used decades ago: divestment.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1490722921,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":373},"headData":{"title":"Lawmakers Look to California Retirement Funds to Protest Trump | KQED","description":"The election of Donald Trump is reigniting use of a protest tool used decades ago: divestment.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11378925 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11378925","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/28/lawmakers-look-to-california-retirement-funds-to-protest-trump/","disqusTitle":"Lawmakers Look to California Retirement Funds to Protest Trump","audioUrl":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/03/2017-03-28d-tcr.mp3","guestFields":"0","path":"/news/11378925/lawmakers-look-to-california-retirement-funds-to-protest-trump","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the 1980s, California effectively withheld investment in South Africa to pressure leaders there to drop its apartheid policy. Now, the nation’s largest public retirement fund is facing a similar pressure aimed at protesting President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) is huge, valued at \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/forms-publications/calpers-at-a-glance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">more than $300 billion\u003c/a>. Decisions on where to put its money give CalPERS potentially large leverage with companies and industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblyman Phil Ting has \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB946\" target=\"_blank\">introduced a bill\u003c/a> that would encourage CalPERS and the State Teachers Retirement System to divest from companies involved in the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/23/california-companies-vying-to-build-trumps-wall/\" target=\"_blank\">construction of a wall\u003c/a> along the Mexican border. Ting says the reasoning is simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are corporations and corporations respond to money,\" he says. \"These are two of the largest investors in the world and that’s one of the only ways I think they would get the message.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting is not alone in his thinking. Over the years CalPERS has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/board-agendas/201702/invest/item06b-01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">called on to divest\u003c/a> from coal companies, the tobacco industry, firearms and various countries, among other things. Ting says his bill sends a message that California welcomes immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But CalPERS Chief Operating Investment Officer Wylie Tollettee says the fund is not in the business of making political statements. Instead the focus is on evaluating the risk and reward of investments. And Tollettee says CalPERS increasingly prefers to focus on engaging with companies rather than divesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Own the company, be a long-term holder, be an active owner, care about what that company’s behavior is in the marketplace,\" he says. \"You’re going to be much more effective if you’re an owner and have a vote of your shares with that company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Mitchell is a professor emeritus at UCLA’s Schools of Management and Public Affairs. He agrees divesting isn’t especially effective in bringing about corporate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially what happens is CalPERS sells the stock to somebody else who doesn’t have those particular interest or concerns and the stock price is largely unaffected,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell says CalPERS needs to maintain a diverse investment portfolio in order to meet its pension obligations.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11378925/lawmakers-look-to-california-retirement-funds-to-protest-trump","authors":["11200"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_20446","news_2783","news_1323","news_1852","news_118","news_20720","news_17286","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_11371499","label":"news_72"},"news_10973513":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10973513","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10973513","score":null,"sort":[1464741345000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"former-calpers-head-gets-prison-time-for-bribery","title":"Former CalPERS Head Gets Prison Time for Bribery","publishDate":1464741345,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A federal judge Tuesday sentenced the former head of the nation's largest public pension fund to 4½ years in prison in a case in which the pension fund CEO acknowledged accepting more than $200,000 in bribes and trying to steer investments to help an associate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer called the case against Federico Buenrostro, the former chief executive of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, \"seriously troubling\" and said it reflected a \"spectacular breach of trust for the most venal of purposes, which is self-enrichment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buenrostro pleaded guilty to fraud and bribery charges two years ago, saying he started taking bribes around 2005 to try to get CalPERS staff members to make investment decisions that helped Alfred Villalobos, an investment manager and former board member of the pension fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buenrostro said he accepted cash, a trip around the world and allowed Villalobos to pay for his wedding in Lake Tahoe, California. Villalobos killed himself last year, weeks before he was set to go on trial. He had pleaded not guilty to fraud charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I take full responsibility and accept the consequences of the actions I took,\" Buenrostro, in a blue jail outfit and leg irons, told the judge before he was sentenced. \"I'm humiliated, embarrassed and deeply ashamed of my actions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buenrostro's guilty plea came out of an investigation into the role of money-management firm middlemen, called placement agents, in helping clients win investment business from the pension fund. The fund manages health and retirement benefits for state employees and has about $290 billion in assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of his plea deal, Buenrostro acknowledged giving Villalobos access to confidential investment information and forging letters that allowed firms connected with Villalobos to collect a $14 million commission on $3 billion worth of pension fund investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former executive faced up to five years in prison, but the U.S. Attorney's Office asked for a four-year term, citing Buenrostro's cooperation in the case against Villalobos. He also has agreed to pay back $250,000 to the state, prosecutors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Lucey, representing the U.S. Attorney's Office, said Buenrostro had helped prosecutors understand the extent of his conspiracy with Villalobos and investigate other cases. He did not provide details about the other cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was one of the most startling and serious cases of public corruption in the history of the state of California ...,\" he said. \"That being said, Mr. Buenrostro did come forward and admit to what he had done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors sought the shorter sentence despite Buenrostro getting sent to jail when he violated the terms of his probation on a misdemeanor domestic violence charge by making contact with the victim, authorities say. He pleaded no contest in that case in March.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A federal judge sentences the former head of the nation's largest pension fund to prison for \"spectacular breach of trust.\"","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1464818296,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":469},"headData":{"title":"Former CalPERS Head Gets Prison Time for Bribery | KQED","description":"A federal judge sentences the former head of the nation's largest pension fund to prison for "spectacular breach of trust."","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"10973513 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10973513","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/31/former-calpers-head-gets-prison-time-for-bribery/","disqusTitle":"Former CalPERS Head Gets Prison Time for Bribery","nprStoryId":"480223241","path":"/news/10973513/former-calpers-head-gets-prison-time-for-bribery","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A federal judge Tuesday sentenced the former head of the nation's largest public pension fund to 4½ years in prison in a case in which the pension fund CEO acknowledged accepting more than $200,000 in bribes and trying to steer investments to help an associate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer called the case against Federico Buenrostro, the former chief executive of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, \"seriously troubling\" and said it reflected a \"spectacular breach of trust for the most venal of purposes, which is self-enrichment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buenrostro pleaded guilty to fraud and bribery charges two years ago, saying he started taking bribes around 2005 to try to get CalPERS staff members to make investment decisions that helped Alfred Villalobos, an investment manager and former board member of the pension fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buenrostro said he accepted cash, a trip around the world and allowed Villalobos to pay for his wedding in Lake Tahoe, California. Villalobos killed himself last year, weeks before he was set to go on trial. He had pleaded not guilty to fraud charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I take full responsibility and accept the consequences of the actions I took,\" Buenrostro, in a blue jail outfit and leg irons, told the judge before he was sentenced. \"I'm humiliated, embarrassed and deeply ashamed of my actions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buenrostro's guilty plea came out of an investigation into the role of money-management firm middlemen, called placement agents, in helping clients win investment business from the pension fund. The fund manages health and retirement benefits for state employees and has about $290 billion in assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of his plea deal, Buenrostro acknowledged giving Villalobos access to confidential investment information and forging letters that allowed firms connected with Villalobos to collect a $14 million commission on $3 billion worth of pension fund investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former executive faced up to five years in prison, but the U.S. Attorney's Office asked for a four-year term, citing Buenrostro's cooperation in the case against Villalobos. He also has agreed to pay back $250,000 to the state, prosecutors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Lucey, representing the U.S. Attorney's Office, said Buenrostro had helped prosecutors understand the extent of his conspiracy with Villalobos and investigate other cases. He did not provide details about the other cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was one of the most startling and serious cases of public corruption in the history of the state of California ...,\" he said. \"That being said, Mr. Buenrostro did come forward and admit to what he had done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors sought the shorter sentence despite Buenrostro getting sent to jail when he violated the terms of his probation on a misdemeanor domestic violence charge by making contact with the victim, authorities say. He pleaded no contest in that case in March.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10973513/former-calpers-head-gets-prison-time-for-bribery","authors":["237"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_2783","news_3930"],"featImg":"news_74988","label":"news_72"},"news_123353":{"type":"posts","id":"news_123353","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"123353","score":null,"sort":[1389730241000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"some-good-news-and-some-big-challenges-for-state-pension-funds","title":"Some Good News, and Some Big Challenges, for State Pension Funds ","publishDate":1389730241,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_123362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-123362\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS7960_106397785-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The good news from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calpers.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California Public Employees' Retirement System\u003c/a>, the pension system that serves about 1.7 million public sector workers, retirees and their dependents: 2013 was a very good year for the fund's investments. CalPERS reported Monday that its portfolio grew by 16.2 percent last year, boosted by last year's runup in stock prices, and is now worth $282 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-calpers-investment-return-20140114,0,2189294.story#axzz2qNvNoJ1v\" target=\"_blank\">the Los Angeles Times reports\u003c/a>, the gains are the latest turn for CalPERS' up-and-down fortunes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The results for 2013 capped a wild ride for the agency over the last 11 years. The fund was especially hard hit during the Great Recession of 2007-09. In 2008, amid the depths of the worst global economic slowdown in half a century, the fund lost 27.8 percent of its value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, it has climbed back. In 2011, the fund's increase in value was a mere 1.1 percent. For 2012, the rate of investment growth was up to 13.3 percent. By early 2013, the total value of the fund officially surpassed its pre-recession high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalPERS' overall rate of return for 2013 was more than twice the 7.5 percent minimum that the fund's board has said it needs to meet current and future obligations to retirees.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>CalPERS performance actually was well below the major stock indexes for 2013, which saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average reach a record high and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index rise about 30 percent for the year. CalPERS saw more modest gains because it is required to balance its portfolio with other assets, like bonds, commodities and real estate, which didn't perform as well as stocks last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the CalPERS report, though, looms the reality that the state's public sector retirement funds are still facing hundreds of billions of dollars in future retirement obligations that it hasn't yet figured out a way to pay for. CalPERS reportedly accounts for about $100 billion of the shortfall. The state's other major retirement fund, the California State Teachers' Retirement System, or CalSTRS, faces another $80 billion in unfunded liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press notes in a story today that despite Gov. Jerry Brown's promise to start tackling the state's biggest fiscal challenges, he's not yet proposing any specific action on CalSTRS. (The system is vital to California teachers because they don't pay into Social Security and thus don't get it when they retire.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP's Don Thompson notes the CalSTRS liability is \"a gap so large that the fund is projected to deplete all its assets in about 30 years. ... The deficit for the nation's largest educator-only pension fund is so huge it would cost teachers, local school districts, community colleges and the state budget a combined $4.5 billion a year to bridge. The California State Teachers' Retirement System says it grows by $22 million each day nothing is done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson also spells out some of the obstacles that must be surmounted to get CalSTRS back on track:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>And unlike the California Public Employees' Retirement System, which covers a wide range of state and municipal employees, CalSTRS cannot unilaterally increase the amount it collects from state and local governments. CalSTRS contributions can be increased only if the Legislature votes to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While CalPERS plans to boost contribution levels again next month for the third time in the last two years, the 8 percent that teachers pay into the pension fund from their salaries has not changed since 1972. The 8.25 percent that school districts pay has not been altered since 1990.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the state's share can vary slightly, it has hovered at 5.5 percent, including an annual cost-of-living adjustment — about $1.4 billion a year. The state's general fund contribution to CalPERS is projected to top $1.8 billion next fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bulk of the pension funds' revenue comes not from contributions but from investment income. And that also is the cause of CalSTRS' problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dot.com boom led to the fund being fully funded by 1998, but the windfall prompted state lawmakers to increase benefits and decrease the state's contribution. CalSTRS Chief Executive Officer Jack Ehnes said the fund has been seeking an increase ever since the tech market balloon deflated more than a decade ago, but the bottom really dropped out during the Great Recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Brown administration says the state cannot afford to absorb the full $4.5 billion annual increase because it would overwhelm other budget priorities. Paying $4.5 billion on top of the current $1.4 billion would eclipse state spending for the University of California and California State University systems combined, according to the legislative analyst. It calls the unfunded teacher pensions perhaps the state's most difficult fiscal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local districts \"should anticipate absorbing much of any new CalSTRS funding requirement,\" advises Brown's budget, while \"the state's long-term role as a direct contributor to the plan should be evaluated.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"CalPERS fund scored a 16 percent gain in 2013. Meantime, a crisis looms for teachers' pension fund. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1399488738,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":856},"headData":{"title":"Some Good News, and Some Big Challenges, for State Pension Funds | KQED","description":"CalPERS fund scored a 16 percent gain in 2013. Meantime, a crisis looms for teachers' pension fund. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"123353 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=123353","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/14/some-good-news-and-some-big-challenges-for-state-pension-funds/","disqusTitle":"Some Good News, and Some Big Challenges, for State Pension Funds ","customPermalink":"2014/01/14/good-news-bad-news-for-states-big-pension-funds/","path":"/news/123353/some-good-news-and-some-big-challenges-for-state-pension-funds","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_123362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-123362\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS7960_106397785-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The good news from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calpers.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California Public Employees' Retirement System\u003c/a>, the pension system that serves about 1.7 million public sector workers, retirees and their dependents: 2013 was a very good year for the fund's investments. CalPERS reported Monday that its portfolio grew by 16.2 percent last year, boosted by last year's runup in stock prices, and is now worth $282 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-calpers-investment-return-20140114,0,2189294.story#axzz2qNvNoJ1v\" target=\"_blank\">the Los Angeles Times reports\u003c/a>, the gains are the latest turn for CalPERS' up-and-down fortunes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The results for 2013 capped a wild ride for the agency over the last 11 years. The fund was especially hard hit during the Great Recession of 2007-09. In 2008, amid the depths of the worst global economic slowdown in half a century, the fund lost 27.8 percent of its value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, it has climbed back. In 2011, the fund's increase in value was a mere 1.1 percent. For 2012, the rate of investment growth was up to 13.3 percent. By early 2013, the total value of the fund officially surpassed its pre-recession high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalPERS' overall rate of return for 2013 was more than twice the 7.5 percent minimum that the fund's board has said it needs to meet current and future obligations to retirees.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>CalPERS performance actually was well below the major stock indexes for 2013, which saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average reach a record high and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index rise about 30 percent for the year. CalPERS saw more modest gains because it is required to balance its portfolio with other assets, like bonds, commodities and real estate, which didn't perform as well as stocks last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the CalPERS report, though, looms the reality that the state's public sector retirement funds are still facing hundreds of billions of dollars in future retirement obligations that it hasn't yet figured out a way to pay for. CalPERS reportedly accounts for about $100 billion of the shortfall. The state's other major retirement fund, the California State Teachers' Retirement System, or CalSTRS, faces another $80 billion in unfunded liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press notes in a story today that despite Gov. Jerry Brown's promise to start tackling the state's biggest fiscal challenges, he's not yet proposing any specific action on CalSTRS. (The system is vital to California teachers because they don't pay into Social Security and thus don't get it when they retire.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP's Don Thompson notes the CalSTRS liability is \"a gap so large that the fund is projected to deplete all its assets in about 30 years. ... The deficit for the nation's largest educator-only pension fund is so huge it would cost teachers, local school districts, community colleges and the state budget a combined $4.5 billion a year to bridge. The California State Teachers' Retirement System says it grows by $22 million each day nothing is done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson also spells out some of the obstacles that must be surmounted to get CalSTRS back on track:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>And unlike the California Public Employees' Retirement System, which covers a wide range of state and municipal employees, CalSTRS cannot unilaterally increase the amount it collects from state and local governments. CalSTRS contributions can be increased only if the Legislature votes to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While CalPERS plans to boost contribution levels again next month for the third time in the last two years, the 8 percent that teachers pay into the pension fund from their salaries has not changed since 1972. The 8.25 percent that school districts pay has not been altered since 1990.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the state's share can vary slightly, it has hovered at 5.5 percent, including an annual cost-of-living adjustment — about $1.4 billion a year. The state's general fund contribution to CalPERS is projected to top $1.8 billion next fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bulk of the pension funds' revenue comes not from contributions but from investment income. And that also is the cause of CalSTRS' problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dot.com boom led to the fund being fully funded by 1998, but the windfall prompted state lawmakers to increase benefits and decrease the state's contribution. CalSTRS Chief Executive Officer Jack Ehnes said the fund has been seeking an increase ever since the tech market balloon deflated more than a decade ago, but the bottom really dropped out during the Great Recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Brown administration says the state cannot afford to absorb the full $4.5 billion annual increase because it would overwhelm other budget priorities. Paying $4.5 billion on top of the current $1.4 billion would eclipse state spending for the University of California and California State University systems combined, according to the legislative analyst. It calls the unfunded teacher pensions perhaps the state's most difficult fiscal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local districts \"should anticipate absorbing much of any new CalSTRS funding requirement,\" advises Brown's budget, while \"the state's long-term role as a direct contributor to the plan should be evaluated.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/123353/some-good-news-and-some-big-challenges-for-state-pension-funds","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_1758"],"tags":["news_2783","news_152","news_30","news_118","news_2044"],"featImg":"news_123362","label":"news_6944"},"news_118850":{"type":"posts","id":"news_118850","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"118850","score":null,"sort":[1384914802000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"jp-morgans-13-billion-deal-sends-300-million-to-california-pension-funds","title":"JP Morgan's $13 Billion Deal Sends $300 Million to Calif. Pension Funds","publishDate":1384914802,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118858\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/19/118850/JP-Morgan-Department-of-Justice-mortgage/rs7630_176509256-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118858\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-118858\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7630_176509256-scr-e1384914614468.jpg\" alt=\"People walk by JP Morgan Chase & Company headquarters in New York. (Emmanuel Dunand)\" width=\"640\" height=\"389\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk by JP Morgan Chase & Company headquarters in New York. (Emmanuel Dunand)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://dealbook.on.nytimes.com/public/overview?symbol=JPM&inline=nyt-org\">JP Morgan Chase\u003c/a> and the U.S. Department of Justice reached a $13 billion civil settlement to resolve an array of state and federal suits involving JP Morgan's sale of troubled mortgage securities to pension funds and other investors, from 2005 through 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal includes a settlement of nearly $300 million to California’s massive pension funds for public employees and teachers — the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System. The deal also stipulates that JPMorgan provide $4 billion in mortgage relief to states including California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a news conference in his Sacramento office, U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner said the deal “is the largest single-company civil settlement” in the history of the Justice Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/11/19/5927759/13-billion-jpmorgan-settlement.html\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>, \"Wagner and four attorneys on his staff were key players in the settlement by virtue of their year-old investigation of JPMorgan. Wagner’s focus on the rampant mortgage fraud in the Central Valley led to high ranking justice officials deciding to let him carry the ball in a nationwide investigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government accused the nation's largest bank of not fully disclosing to investors the risks of buying defective mortgage-backed securities. Their implosion in 2008 helped send the economy to its lowest depths since the Depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“JP Morgan Chase profited by giving California’s pension funds incomplete information about mortgage investments,” Attorney General Kamala Harris said in a statement. “This settlement returns the money to California’s pension funds that JP Morgan wrongfully took from them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here is the Associated Press story:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Don Thompson\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SACRAMENTO — JPMorgan Chase & Co. will pay $299 million to California's public employee and teacher pension funds as part of a settlement related to mortgage-related investments, state Attorney General Kamala Harris announced Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money will settle claims that the company misrepresented the value of residential mortgage-backed securities sold to the California Public Employees Retirement System and California State Teachers' Retirement System between 2004 and 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"JP Morgan Chase profited by giving California's pension funds incomplete information about mortgage investments,'' Harris said in a statement. \"This settlement returns the money to California's pension funds that JP Morgan wrongfully took from them.''\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement is part of a broader, $13 billion settlement between the investment company and the U.S. Department of Justice. Under the larger settlement, which also was announced Tuesday, JPMorgan will provide $4 billion in mortgage relief to the states, including California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris said her office's investigation found that documents provided by the company did not accurately disclose the nature of the underlying mortgages and that the company did not properly eliminate risky loans from the securities it was offering the pension funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement will reimburse the funds for the losses they took for investing in mortgage-backed securities offered by JPMorgan, Washington Mutual Bank and Bear Stearns. JPMorgan acquired the other two companies in 2008 and has said most of its mortgage-backed securities came from them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $4 billion in consumer mortgage relief that is included in the larger national settlement goes to those who were harmed by the same three firms. That money will go toward loan modifications, forgiving the principal on mortgages and efforts to improve blighted neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris' office could not predict how much of the $4 billion will come to California but said the distribution will be overseen by an independent monitor to make sure the company meets its obligations under the settlement. It was not clear how the $300 million is being carved from the $13 billion settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also is receiving about $20 billion from a separate national mortgage settlement in 2012. That deal was with the nation's largest banks, including JPMorgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has had nearly 1 million foreclosed homes — more than any other state — since the housing meltdown began in early 2007, according to DataQuick, a San Diego-based research firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also leads the nation in the number of short sales, during which a home is sold for less than what was owed on the mortgage. DataQuick estimates there were 460,000 short sales between 2007 and September of this year, out of 706,000 nationally in the regions it tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner in Sacramento said the activity described in Tuesday's settlement with JPMorgan was \"symptomatic of the recklessness on Wall Street.'' His region includes the Central Valley, which he describes as being \"ravaged'' by the mortgage crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The stakes were very high, and I think there was pressure on the due-diligence people to get the deal done,'' he said during a news conference about the issues underlying the civil settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2008, his office has charged about 350 people in connection with mortgage fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Settlement with Justice Dept. acknowledges bank misled investors about flawed mortgage-backed securities.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1446498711,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":834},"headData":{"title":"JP Morgan's $13 Billion Deal Sends $300 Million to Calif. 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Pension Funds","customPermalink":"2013/11/19/118850/JP-Morgan-Department-of-Justice-mortgage/","path":"/news/118850/jp-morgans-13-billion-deal-sends-300-million-to-california-pension-funds","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118858\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/19/118850/JP-Morgan-Department-of-Justice-mortgage/rs7630_176509256-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118858\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-118858\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7630_176509256-scr-e1384914614468.jpg\" alt=\"People walk by JP Morgan Chase & Company headquarters in New York. (Emmanuel Dunand)\" width=\"640\" height=\"389\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk by JP Morgan Chase & Company headquarters in New York. (Emmanuel Dunand)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://dealbook.on.nytimes.com/public/overview?symbol=JPM&inline=nyt-org\">JP Morgan Chase\u003c/a> and the U.S. Department of Justice reached a $13 billion civil settlement to resolve an array of state and federal suits involving JP Morgan's sale of troubled mortgage securities to pension funds and other investors, from 2005 through 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal includes a settlement of nearly $300 million to California’s massive pension funds for public employees and teachers — the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System. The deal also stipulates that JPMorgan provide $4 billion in mortgage relief to states including California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a news conference in his Sacramento office, U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner said the deal “is the largest single-company civil settlement” in the history of the Justice Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/11/19/5927759/13-billion-jpmorgan-settlement.html\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>, \"Wagner and four attorneys on his staff were key players in the settlement by virtue of their year-old investigation of JPMorgan. Wagner’s focus on the rampant mortgage fraud in the Central Valley led to high ranking justice officials deciding to let him carry the ball in a nationwide investigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government accused the nation's largest bank of not fully disclosing to investors the risks of buying defective mortgage-backed securities. Their implosion in 2008 helped send the economy to its lowest depths since the Depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“JP Morgan Chase profited by giving California’s pension funds incomplete information about mortgage investments,” Attorney General Kamala Harris said in a statement. “This settlement returns the money to California’s pension funds that JP Morgan wrongfully took from them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here is the Associated Press story:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Don Thompson\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SACRAMENTO — JPMorgan Chase & Co. will pay $299 million to California's public employee and teacher pension funds as part of a settlement related to mortgage-related investments, state Attorney General Kamala Harris announced Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money will settle claims that the company misrepresented the value of residential mortgage-backed securities sold to the California Public Employees Retirement System and California State Teachers' Retirement System between 2004 and 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"JP Morgan Chase profited by giving California's pension funds incomplete information about mortgage investments,'' Harris said in a statement. \"This settlement returns the money to California's pension funds that JP Morgan wrongfully took from them.''\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement is part of a broader, $13 billion settlement between the investment company and the U.S. Department of Justice. Under the larger settlement, which also was announced Tuesday, JPMorgan will provide $4 billion in mortgage relief to the states, including California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris said her office's investigation found that documents provided by the company did not accurately disclose the nature of the underlying mortgages and that the company did not properly eliminate risky loans from the securities it was offering the pension funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement will reimburse the funds for the losses they took for investing in mortgage-backed securities offered by JPMorgan, Washington Mutual Bank and Bear Stearns. JPMorgan acquired the other two companies in 2008 and has said most of its mortgage-backed securities came from them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $4 billion in consumer mortgage relief that is included in the larger national settlement goes to those who were harmed by the same three firms. That money will go toward loan modifications, forgiving the principal on mortgages and efforts to improve blighted neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris' office could not predict how much of the $4 billion will come to California but said the distribution will be overseen by an independent monitor to make sure the company meets its obligations under the settlement. It was not clear how the $300 million is being carved from the $13 billion settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also is receiving about $20 billion from a separate national mortgage settlement in 2012. That deal was with the nation's largest banks, including JPMorgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has had nearly 1 million foreclosed homes — more than any other state — since the housing meltdown began in early 2007, according to DataQuick, a San Diego-based research firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also leads the nation in the number of short sales, during which a home is sold for less than what was owed on the mortgage. DataQuick estimates there were 460,000 short sales between 2007 and September of this year, out of 706,000 nationally in the regions it tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner in Sacramento said the activity described in Tuesday's settlement with JPMorgan was \"symptomatic of the recklessness on Wall Street.'' His region includes the Central Valley, which he describes as being \"ravaged'' by the mortgage crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The stakes were very high, and I think there was pressure on the due-diligence people to get the deal done,'' he said during a news conference about the issues underlying the civil settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2008, his office has charged about 350 people in connection with mortgage fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/118850/jp-morgans-13-billion-deal-sends-300-million-to-california-pension-funds","authors":["237"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_1758","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_2783","news_4016"],"featImg":"news_118858","label":"news_6944"},"news_91653":{"type":"posts","id":"news_91653","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"91653","score":null,"sort":[1363637786000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"former-calpers-official-indicted","title":"Former CalPERS Official Indicted","publishDate":1363637786,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A federal grand jury has indicted a former official of California's largest state employee retirement fund, the Department of Justice has announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the press release:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted Alfred J. Villalobos, of Reno, Nevada, and Federico R. Buenrostro, Jr., aka Fred Buenrostro, of Sacramento, California, on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, engaging in a false scheme against the United States, and conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced. Mr. Buenrostro was also charged in the same indictment with making a false statement to the United States and obstruction of justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/08/31/how-californias-new-pension-legislation-affects-you/calpers/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74988\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-74988\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/CalPERS-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"CalPERS\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>According to the indictment, Mr. Villalobos, age 69, and Mr. Buenrostro, age 64, conspired to create and transmit fraudulent documents in connection with a $3 billion investment by the California Public Employee Retirement System (“CalPERS”) into funds managed by Apollo Global Management (“Apollo”), a private equity firm based in New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ARVCO Capital Research LLC (“ARVCO”), a financial services firm founded and managed by Mr. Villalobos, acted as a placement agent in helping Apollo to secure these investments by CalPERS. In each instance, Apollo required ARVCO to obtain an Investor Disclosure letter from CalPERS prior to paying ARVCO any fees for its efforts in securing CalPERS’ investments into Apollo-managed funds, citing, among other reasons, Apollo’s obligations under the securities laws.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After CalPERS’ legal and investment offices declined to sign a certain Investor Disclosure letter documenting ARVCO’s legal relationship with Apollo, Mr. Villalobos and Mr. Buenrostro conspired to create a series of fraudulent Investor Disclosure letters that were transmitted to Apollo. Apollo paid ARVCO a total of approximately $14 million dollars in fees after receiving the fraudulent letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ARVCO transmitted the last fraudulent Investor Disclosure letter in June 2008, a few weeks before Mr. Buenrostro retired from CalPERS. On July 1, 2008, Mr. Villalobos hired Mr. Buenrostro to work for ARVCO. When civil and later criminal investigations were opened into the operations of ARVCO and its role as a placement agent in connection with CalPERS’ investments in Apollo-managed funds, both defendants made false statements to, and concealed information from, the SEC, the USPIS, and the FBI, about the authenticity of the Investor Disclosure letters in order to defeat and obstruct the lawful functions of those agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Villalobos and Mr. Buenrostro made their initial appearance in federal court in San Francisco on March 18, 2013, and are currently out on bond. Mr. Buenrostro’s next scheduled appearance is Monday, March 25, 2013, at 9:30 a.m., for identification of counsel and review of the terms of his bond. Mr. Villalobos’ next scheduled appearance is April 9, 2013, at 9:30 a.m., for review of the terms of his bond. Both defendants are scheduled to appear before in District Court on May 8, 2013, at 2:00 p.m., before Judge Breyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The maximum statutory penalty for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud is 20 years imprisonment, $250,000 fine or twice the amount of gain or loss, whichever is greater, three years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. The maximum penalty for each count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, false scheme against the United States, false statement to the United States, and obstruction of justice is five years of imprisonment, $250,000 fine or twice the amount of gain or loss, whichever is greater, three years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Restitution may also be ordered as to each of the five counts. 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Mr. Buenrostro was also charged in the same indictment with making a false statement to the United States and obstruction of justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/08/31/how-californias-new-pension-legislation-affects-you/calpers/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74988\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-74988\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/CalPERS-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"CalPERS\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>According to the indictment, Mr. Villalobos, age 69, and Mr. Buenrostro, age 64, conspired to create and transmit fraudulent documents in connection with a $3 billion investment by the California Public Employee Retirement System (“CalPERS”) into funds managed by Apollo Global Management (“Apollo”), a private equity firm based in New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ARVCO Capital Research LLC (“ARVCO”), a financial services firm founded and managed by Mr. Villalobos, acted as a placement agent in helping Apollo to secure these investments by CalPERS. In each instance, Apollo required ARVCO to obtain an Investor Disclosure letter from CalPERS prior to paying ARVCO any fees for its efforts in securing CalPERS’ investments into Apollo-managed funds, citing, among other reasons, Apollo’s obligations under the securities laws.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After CalPERS’ legal and investment offices declined to sign a certain Investor Disclosure letter documenting ARVCO’s legal relationship with Apollo, Mr. Villalobos and Mr. Buenrostro conspired to create a series of fraudulent Investor Disclosure letters that were transmitted to Apollo. Apollo paid ARVCO a total of approximately $14 million dollars in fees after receiving the fraudulent letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ARVCO transmitted the last fraudulent Investor Disclosure letter in June 2008, a few weeks before Mr. Buenrostro retired from CalPERS. On July 1, 2008, Mr. Villalobos hired Mr. Buenrostro to work for ARVCO. When civil and later criminal investigations were opened into the operations of ARVCO and its role as a placement agent in connection with CalPERS’ investments in Apollo-managed funds, both defendants made false statements to, and concealed information from, the SEC, the USPIS, and the FBI, about the authenticity of the Investor Disclosure letters in order to defeat and obstruct the lawful functions of those agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Villalobos and Mr. Buenrostro made their initial appearance in federal court in San Francisco on March 18, 2013, and are currently out on bond. Mr. Buenrostro’s next scheduled appearance is Monday, March 25, 2013, at 9:30 a.m., for identification of counsel and review of the terms of his bond. Mr. Villalobos’ next scheduled appearance is April 9, 2013, at 9:30 a.m., for review of the terms of his bond. Both defendants are scheduled to appear before in District Court on May 8, 2013, at 2:00 p.m., before Judge Breyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The maximum statutory penalty for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud is 20 years imprisonment, $250,000 fine or twice the amount of gain or loss, whichever is greater, three years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. The maximum penalty for each count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, false scheme against the United States, false statement to the United States, and obstruction of justice is five years of imprisonment, $250,000 fine or twice the amount of gain or loss, whichever is greater, three years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Restitution may also be ordered as to each of the five counts. However, any sentence following conviction would be imposed by the court after consideration of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and the federal statute governing the imposition of a sentence, 18 U.S.C. § 3553.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timothy J. Lucey is the Assistant United States Attorney who is prosecuting the case with the assistance of Laurie Worthen and Maryam Beros. 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Pérez (D-Los Angeles) and Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) said they would investigate. Pérez is speaker of the Assembly and Bonta is chair of the Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalPERS estimated that it had saved $1.6 million by hiring current employees to test its new computer system and work on a backlog of other tasks. It calculated this figure by subtracting its estimated cost for hiring and training additional workers to do the job from what it paid the existing employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it said it was stopping the practice because of the controversy:\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It is now obvious that there are various interpretations of the use of Additional Appointments across all state departments. Most importantly, we recognize that the media has sensationalized this practice and it has now become a significant distraction for policy makers and our own employees from the important business of serving California. Therefore, effective tomorrow (January, 19, 2013), CalPERS is suspending the use of all Additional Appointments until the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR) and the State Personnel Board (SPB) can provide further clarification on this policy that has been in place under six governors’ administrations since 1979. CalPERS intends to get back to the business of serving California’s public employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although CalPERS always planned to phase out the use of these positions by the end of the fiscal year in June, CalPERS is suspending their use now because we value most the trust of our members, stakeholders and the public. The suspension today will affect primarily the speed of processing retirement applications and service credit purchases.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Although state regulations included provisions for hiring employees for more than one job, critics have questioned whether the rules apply to salaried, as opposed to hourly, employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their own statement, Assemblymembers Bonta and Pérez suggested the work might have gone to people who are not already fully employed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>During a time when many Californians are out of work and many state workers have been required to take furloughs, it is disturbing to learn that some CalPERS managers were paid additional wages potentially outside of state personnel policy. While we understand the urgency involving the delivery of CalPERS’ new computer system, we need to look at a better way of handling the extra work. 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Most importantly, we recognize that the media has sensationalized this practice and it has now become a significant distraction for policy makers and our own employees from the important business of serving California. Therefore, effective tomorrow (January, 19, 2013), CalPERS is suspending the use of all Additional Appointments until the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR) and the State Personnel Board (SPB) can provide further clarification on this policy that has been in place under six governors’ administrations since 1979. CalPERS intends to get back to the business of serving California’s public employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although CalPERS always planned to phase out the use of these positions by the end of the fiscal year in June, CalPERS is suspending their use now because we value most the trust of our members, stakeholders and the public. The suspension today will affect primarily the speed of processing retirement applications and service credit purchases.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Although state regulations included provisions for hiring employees for more than one job, critics have questioned whether the rules apply to salaried, as opposed to hourly, employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their own statement, Assemblymembers Bonta and Pérez suggested the work might have gone to people who are not already fully employed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>During a time when many Californians are out of work and many state workers have been required to take furloughs, it is disturbing to learn that some CalPERS managers were paid additional wages potentially outside of state personnel policy. 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