A bill to get the Oregon State Treasury to pause new pension investments in private assets and equity funds that are invested in fossil fuel companies received hundreds of letters of support this week ...

Earlier this week, The Oregonian/OregonLive published a story detailing the state’s distinctly aggressive investment strategy for its public pension fund, one that is now heavily skewed toward ...

Nearly 300 people submitted testimony in support of the Pause Act to stop new Treasury investments in private fossil fuel funds Oregon Capital Chronicle is part of States Newsroom, a network of news ...

A fracking site in Greeley, Colorado, is pictured on June 24, 2020. About 10% of Oregon's Public Employees Retirement System fund is invested in so-called real assets, such as investments in ...

Less than a year ago, Oregon’s former state treasurer pledged to make the state employee pension fund net zero by 2050. Now, the new state treasurer is seeking legislation to continue that work ...

School districts, cities, counties and other public employers in Oregon have tried to ease the financial burden of the state’s retirement system for public employees. But PERS — the Public Employees ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon State Treasurer Elizabeth Steiner is calling on the Oregon legislature to pass a bill that directs the treasury to make “climate positive” investments in the Oregon ...

If you get confused about Oregon’s Public Employees Retirement System — known as PERS — you are not alone. Even people paid to follow it can get lost in the complexity or, at least, joke about it. “I ...

At its heart, the Oregon Supreme Court’s Thursday ruling about the Public Employees Retirement System boils down to this conclusion: A deal is a deal. And, the court ruled, some of the PERS reforms ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Oregon school districts are projected to pay $670 million more to the state’s public employee pension program over the next two years, potentially wiping out all increases to ...

At a recent public meeting about the financial health of OPERF, the $100 billion Oregon Public Employees Retirement System Fund, an activist criticized the Oregon State Treasury for losing money when ...

Oregon would guarantee the state’s $101 billion public pension fund is fully carbon neutral within the next 25 years under a bill one step from becoming law. House Bill 2081, a bill to codify Oregon ...