- November 14, 2014At a recent City Council Budget and Fiscal Affairs Committee meeting, the City’s representative made a presentation on a variety…
- November 7, 2014In a recent opinion piece in the Houston Chronicle – “Houston, there is a pension problem” (October 1, 2014) --…
- November 4, 2014We are pleased to announce the certification of the Houston Municipal Employees Pension System in the CEFEX Investment Steward program.…
- October 31, 2014The Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP) interest rate for calendar year 2015 will be 7.5%, effective January 1, 2015. The…
- June 20, 2014The Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) has awarded the Houston Municipal Employees Pension System…
- February 7, 2014The Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP) interest rate for calendar year 2014 will be 6.79%, effective January 1, 2014. The…
- January 22, 2014The City of Houston announced that it had filed suit against the Houston Firefighters’ Retirement and Relief Fund (HFRRF) to…
- October 31, 2013The Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP) interest rate for calendar year 2014 will be 6.79%, effective January 1, 2014. The…
- August 29, 2013Max Patterson, Executive Director of the Texas Association of Public Employees Retirement Systems, wrote a letter that appeared in the…
- July 29, 2013n light of the City of Detroit's unfortunate filing for bankruptcy recently, some have asked if such a troubling event…