The omitted information set the stage for the board to vote to certify an incorrect and exaggerated sum for its investment performance.
, but instructed his senior staff not to share the cautionary information with the plan’s board, a new investigation found.
The board of PSERS, the $73 billion Public School Employment Retirement System, made public the long-awaitedlawyers about midnight Tuesday. Its weary members did so after the panel had met in secret for 15 hours Monday to review the 37-page report and its accompanying 95 pages of of rebuttal statements and significant documents.
Financed by taxpayers, working teachers and its investment profits, PSERS is among the 25 largest pension funds in the United States. It sends out $6 billion in pension checks yearly to 250,000 retired former school workers.the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday’s Womble report did not address the SEC’s gifts and travel probe; the firm apparently is still looking into that.Curiously, the report was silent about what had been to date the most controversial aspect of those purchases. As The Inquirer and Spotlight PAfinancial documentsform 990s drafted as part of the sales said that PSERS staffers would also be paid by the firm hired to manage the properties — a clear conflict of interest, if true.
nuAt the end of Monday’s marathon session, the board met briefly in public, in a meeting that was streamed online. A succession of board members congratulated each other on how they had handled the matter before voting unanimously to release the report immediately. In about June 2020, the report reveals, PSERS staff even asked another vendor, Buck Consulting, precisely what profit figure it needed to reach to avoid triggering that jump in payroll deductions.“We found nothing to suggest that this request was made with an intent to ‘game’ the system; rather it was requested to permit an early understanding of the process and potential outcome,” Womble wrote.
nuInternal PSERS records trace the error to “data corruption” in just one month — April 2015 — over the near-decade-long period reviewed for the calculation. ACA, hired to check the numbers, has said itinvestment czar Grossman
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