This is your daily pension announcement! Management Employees' Pension Plan (MEPP) has their 2019 Annual Report available. AIMCO earned return: 12.5% against a benchmark of 13.3%. Not good. Bonuses should never be paid for below benchmark performance. #AbLeg@premiamgmt#fail
Not a big problem for MEPP, after all, they are 120% funded. Interesting to note that AIMCO charged MEPP 80 bps in costs. ATRF last year had investment costs of 76 bps, Travis tell me again how Bill 22 is going to save money... @AbLeg#handsoffmypension
@JasonCoppingAB has not replied to my email about the errors he was making about pensions. MEPP is a good example of a single sponsor (ie not joint) plan. Travis is the sole authority for the plan and is responsible for deficiencies. It is also fairly small ~$5 billion. #AbLeg
The GOA does NOT guarantee teachers' pensions. Travis needs to seek some truth here...
BTW, over 4 years (Kevin's tenure) value add has been 40 bps, the expectation of MEPP is a value add of 75 bps or more.
Mission not achieved. Oh well, at least it isn't negative. #AbLeg
Someday, I will total the millions of dollars of bonuses that were paid to AIMCO executives to not achieve their mission. Sigh.
You would do well when chatting with your MLA to mention that the AIMCO Board and senior admin need to disclose their expenses as the ATRF does. #AbLeg
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The Pension War Room™️ passes on this wisdom from the current AIMCO Board Chair. It seems to me he is throwing shade on Travis and @jkenney. Read it and tell me if I am wrong..... #AbLeg#handsoffmypension
He starts by recognizing that Canadian pensions are "well managed and safe" especially when compared to the rest of the developing world.
Then the bomb:
"it is vitally important that these plans continue to operate with the independence and strong corporate governance" #ALeg
Independence? That has been established as critical to successful pension funds. I wonder what he thinks about Travis meddling in investment managers for ATRF.....
Strong governance? I wonder what advice he is giving Travis about AIMCO..
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
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."