Interim Studies

January 2019: Funding Policies for Fixed-Rate Pension Plans

• Recognizing the many challenges facing Texas plans and in accordance with its Pension Funding Guidelines, the Texas Pension Review Board directed staff to research and identify the role that funding policies could play in helping plans meet their funding objectives

October 2018: Asset Pooling for Small Pension Systems

• The PRB directed staff to study the possible benefits for smaller pension systems of pooling trust funds for investment purposes as part of the agency’s mandate to include recommendations relating to public retirement systems that the board finds advisable