Jeffrey Brown

Jeffrey Brown writes primarily about the U.S. public and private retirement system. Trained in economics (with a PhD from MIT), he served as the William Karnes Professor of Finance and Director of the Center for Business and Public Policy at the University of Illinois. He is also Associate Director of the Retirement Research Center at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

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Jeffrey Brown, February 27, 2014

Reasons to Be Wary of State-Run Retirement Plans

Given how poorly states like California and Illinois have funded the pension funds for their own employees, one would think that this would stop dead in its tracks any plan to have the government assist in managing private sector funds too. The spate of recent activity, however, suggests otherwise.

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