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Illinois Pension Funds Deteriorate in Fiscal 2012

Posted on November 15, 2012

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This article covers the Civic Federation’s updated analysis of Illinois’ pension funding. By compiling recent actuarial reports for the State’s five retirement funds, the analysis finds the combined funded ratio for Illinois’ pension system has dropped to 39.0% based on the market value of assets (40.4% based on the actuarial or smoothed value of assets.)