This is your daily pension announcement! Not feeling the love today edition. I want to just remind we still have no reliable answer as to how many billions went down the toilet🚽 with KXL. #AbLeg#handsoffmypension
Our pension topic of the day is about MLAs wrongly telling AB that the GOA is responsible for any deficiency in public sector pension plans. Some plans are like that, not the major AB public sector plans though. #handsoffmypension
Joint (or risk shared) plans like ATRF split the liabilities between the GOA and the teachers. Which is only fair that it mirrors contributions. And these liabilities are paid off in a 15 year time period max. #AbLeg#handsoffmypension
Travis' talk is so dangerous because currently teachers and GOA together are paying off a deficiency of 3.28% of pay roughly half and half. If what the GOA has said is true they should be paying this off alone. Someone let Bryce know. #AbLeg#handsoffmypension
This is why the ATRF Board needs the freedom to make decisions on all aspects of the plan like investment management. If the GOA is de facto pulling the strings behind the curtains then they are de facto accepting any liabilities. #dangerous#AbLeg#handsoffmypension
Somewhere at TBF they have a risk management analysis that explains all of this. There is no evidence that Travis or Athana has read it. @jkenney needs a copy too. I would have never thought our mini-MAGA GOA would be publicly accepting pension liabilities. #AbLeg
Just a reminder that Travis did not need to impose an IMA. He could have let the ATRF continue to manage the assets until agreement was reached. Now Travis is getting sued by at least two organizations over this decision. #AbLeg#handsoffmypension
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This is your daily pension announcement: The ATRF is dropping the truth munitions! Check this shit out. Can you say boom?💣💣💣 When they say "public statements" they mean the incorrect MLA statements. #AbLeg#handsoffmypension
This is a new low for democracy. Elected officials saying things that are flat out wrong ("the GOA guarantees your pension!") or injurious to taxpayers ("the GOA assumes all unfunded liabilities!). #handsoffmypension#AbLeg
The MLAs have corrected their press lines, but not (to my knowledge) issued any retractions.
So to clarify: AIMCO broke off negotiations in November.
AIMCO is insisting on the clause that does not give ATRF full decision making control.🤮🤮
This is your daily pension announcement. Lots of you have heard back from your MLA with the the statement below👇. This one is from @JasonCoppingAB, but they are all the same. You need to go back at your MLAs HARD because this is some Stalin level disinformation. #AbLeg#abpoli
In no particular order I will run through the errors:
1. "the Alberta Government ...holds the liability of the ATRF plan.."
Absolutely, unequivocaly false. Read the Teachers' Pension Plan Act. Any liabilities are paid off 49% by the GOA/51% by the teachers. #AbLeg#abpoli
This is a risk shared plan, teachers pick up 51% of the financial risk. This is a benefit to the taxpayers. Not all plans in Canada are risk shared but ATRF sure as hell is.
This is your daily pension announcement: The Pension War Room™️ watched the Standing Committee on the Heritage Fund with great interest. The transcript and video are available below. You get all the greats: AIMCO Kevin and TBF Athana. #AbLeg#AIMCOfail
Question of the day goes to @SPhillipsAB who asked with a below benchmark 5 year performance, why have we paid out $57 million in pay and performance bonuses to the top 10 AIMCO execs? Performance bonuses for what? #AbLeg#handsoffmypension@premiamgmt
Remember, Heritage Fund 5 year return is 6.8%, well under the benchmark of 7.4%. We could have paid AIMCO managers to stay home for 5 years and we would have done better. #AbLeg
This is your daily pension announcement: let's see how AIMCO is doing investing the Heritage Savings Trust Fund!
The latest quarterly report is available here. It is about the same size as ATRF. So good comparison. #AbLeg#Spoileralert#handsoffmypension alberta.ca/heritage-savin…
Q2 for AIMCO returned 2.6% versus a bench of 2.1%. Not bad. The large print on the front page says the six month return is 7.7%. But it does not show the six month benchmark which was 8.8%.
"In the SIP&G, the Ministry of Treasury Board and Finance expects that the investments held by the Fund will return approximately 100 basis points, or 1% per annum, above the policy benchmark."
This is your daily pension announcement: Great letter to the editor here. Truth bombs getting lobbed at @nateglubish . Pensions are not a gift. They represent deferred wages that are held in trust then paid out when a worker can no longer work. #ABLeg
UCP MLAs need to look up "fiduciary duty" and "trustee" to understand the role of the ATRF Board. This money does not belong to Travis. A point that he has continually refused to acknowledge. #ABLeg#handsoffmypension benefitscanada.com/news/alberta-g…
Kevin resigned after he lost $2 billion. @jkenney has lost a comparable amount...the writing is on the wall. (BTW don't believe any final tally on KXL until audited numbers are in. The UCP have made several billion dollar accounting "mistakes" in the past.) #ABLeg#handsoff
This is your daily pension announcement: Corbella (I don't believe I am amplifying her) provides an almost complete list of UCP mistakes. She forgets the pension takeover debacle. Of course, she only gets so many words. #ABLeg #handsoffmypension edmontonjournal.com/opinion/column…
People have super long memories about pension monkey business. Just ask Horner his "pension reform" effort coincided with the end of his political career.
Travis thinks public servants will forget all this.
Not so much. #ABLeg
As well I would like to ask the question, @SPhillipsAB :
Is AIMCO violating the law by not listing Board and exec expenses and receipts on their website? You know like ATRF does? #ABLeg