Tag: Public Pension Funding

The projected funded ratio for state and local pension plans in FY 2025 is 77.7 percent, 1.5 percentage points higher than 2023 – the date of our last funding update. These gains seem quite modest, given that the S&P index increased more than 40 percent between June 2023 and June 2025…

The brief’s key findings are: Since 2019, financial markets have seen unusual turmoil, most recently a sharp rise in interest rates to curb high inflation. Despite volatile asset values, the funded status of state and local pension plans has risen about 2 percentage points since 2023, and 5 points since 2019. That is, the strong performance of other…