Hank Kim

• Public pension employees skip Hawaii conference

  By Oskar Garcia  |  May 20, 2013

  Organizers of an annual conference for people who manage more than $3 trillion in public sector pension funds say administrators are skipping this year's meeting in Hawaii to avoid the perception they're wasting money by heading to the island paradise.

• NCPERS asked California governor to sign small business retirement savings plan bill

  By Paula Aven Gladych  |  September 21, 2012

  The National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems has petitioned California Governor Edmund Brown to sign into law a bill that would allow small businesses to participate in a group retirement savings plan.

• NCPERS: Public pensions are recovering from recession

  By Paula Aven Gladych  |  July 21, 2012

  Despite years of underfunding by state and local governments, most public pension plans are “solidly funded and are experiencing a robust recovery from the Great Recession,” according to Hank Kim, executive director and counsel of the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems (NCPERS).

• Public pensions indeed well-funded, sustainable

  By Andy Stonehouse  |  June 11, 2012

  NCPERS study suggests public pension plans are well-funded, enjoying healthy returns on investment and ready to adapt to the future.

• NCPERS pushes fiduciary best practices for government retirement systems

  By Andy Stonehouse  |  April 26, 2012

  Hoping to end losses in state and local government pension funds, new best practices guidelines from NCPERS outline a safer and more open way to do business.

• Feds urged to consider public-private pension plan

  By Andy Stonehouse  |  March 27, 2012

  Reform that includes notions to create a privatized national pension plan for small businesses, as suggested by NCPERS, have received the support of the GAO.

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  Public retirement ages come under greater scrutiny

  By Don Thomopson, Julie Carr Smyth  |  December 12, 2011

  Guaranteed pensions for relatively youthful government retirees — paid in similar fashion to millions nationwide — are contributing to nationwide friction with the public sector workers. They have access to attractive defined-benefit pensions and retiree health care coverage that most private sector workers no longer do.