This is your daily pension announcement: Heritage Fund meeting today, video is available. Some good information along with some misinformation. The value add target for the Heritage is 1.00% over five years. Actual value add 0.3%. #readitandweep#AbLeg
In answer to the question Evan and Dale (CIO) let it slip that 0.7% value add would be top quartile.
You know, like ATRF had before you wrecked it. You took a manager with a value add of 0.7% and replaced it with one with 0.3%. Duh. #AbLeg
This decision will cost AB billions.
I get angry when @aimcoinvests refers to the pension funds as "clients". Hostages comes to mind as more accurate. Does anyone out in the Twitterverse have better word for enforced participation? #AbLeg#handsoffmypension
On the good side, @ewsiddall says a proportion of compensation for the AIMCO rank and file will be based on "net promotion score". This is a metric that will rate how much @aimcoinvests is liked by "clients". This will be a foreign concept to most employees. #AbLeg
Take note: Grant Hunter MLA is still trying to carry the UCP water with his softball. Dale answered the question wrong. $100 million is the threshold at which investment funds start to see dis-economies of scale. He should have gone to Wharton. @AbLeg
Question of the day goes to @SPhillipsAB who asked about the bonuses that seemed to have been paid like salary in the face of AIMCO's worst year ever. #AbLeg
If I was an @aimcoinvests Board Member, Kevin would have had to get by on his $500,000 base pay. #AbLeg#HandsOff
Just your weekly reminder that teachers make the majority of contributions to ATRF; the assets are not public money by any definition; any liabilities are the responsibility of both teachers and employers. Everything @jkenney said on the topic was wrong. #AbLeg
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Well, do need to swing away from pensions for a thread on teacher discipline. The non-progressive conservatives seem to be substituting their opinions for fact. This may be TL:dr; regardless, facts do need to live. #AbLeg#handsoffmypension
In the mid-90's Minister of Education Gary Mar appointed me to the Council on Alberta Teaching Standards (COATS). It had representatives from all the major stakeholders, staff from AB Ed and a lawyer from justice. #AbLeg#handsoff
You remember Gary Mar? Heir-apparent in training for Ralph. Anyway, COATS was charged with developing a regulation that would address teacher discipline for NON-MEMBERS of the ATA. Ab Ed and the minster felt there was a strong and robust process in place at the ATA. #AbLeg
This is your daily pension announcement. The Pension War Room™️notes that @aimcoinvests still makes the news! This is the intrepid @LeannaO who broke the story about the VOLTS losses. While the article as a whole may not be much interest to you....#AbLeg#handsoffmypension
It is a good indicator of what is going on.
I would differ in the numbers a bit. I have it at 40 layoffs, another 40 substantially altered job descriptions and at least one external manager fired.
This is not likely the end either. When a new Chief Investment Officer is hired there will be more changes.
The Twitter version of public accountability is necessary here because teachers and other plan members are in no way represented on @aimcoinvests Board. #AbLeg
This is your daily pension announcement! The Pension War Room™️ wants you to read this, the most cogent response from Travis about the pension brouhaha. Then I will explain how it is still bullshit!🐂🐂💩💩 Please read this carefully. Critical thinking! #AbLeg#handsoffmypension
Did you get the last sentence? The one about an analysis conducted "based on publicly available information". Wrong. Travis is the Minister of Finance. He is one of the sponsors. He is entitled to all the data NOT just the public data. #AbLeg#handsoffmypension
He goes into a complex financial decision that will ultimately cost teachers and taxpayers $1.8 billion without proprietary data that is readily available to him? Really? Give your head a shake.
Travis, apparently could not be bothered to even access the data. #AbLeg#handsoff
This is your daily pension announcement, Dr. Bob Ascah takes a deep dive on @jkenney's crazy pension talk!
Once more for emphasis:
"Once contributions are taken in and invested they are not public money." #AbLeg#handsoffmypension
This is a deep dive in the @jkenney most recent bozo pension eruption. Please send a copy to your MLA. This is one of many issues in which he is sadly misinformed. His (wrong) opinion seems to come from a foreign funded anti-government organization #AbLeg#handsoffmypension
This is just a reminder that the GOA does NOT directly pay the cost of operating @aimcoinvests. Instead, the costs are apportioned to each fund and taken out of investment earnings. This is important because it puts plan members and the GOA on an equal footing for costs. #AbLeg
This is your daily pension announcement: The Pension War Room™️ observes that we were right! A receipt is below from Dr. Bob Ascah. Kevin always claimed that AIMCO's independence was written into the Act...unfortunately, no one can find it. #AbLeg#handsoffmypension@aimcoinvests
Change is afoot @aimcoinvests! If you have been keeping up they parted ways with a group of employees(~40 people), at least one external manager, and a couple of high-level executives. If you noticed, this AM the Chief Risk Officer's bio disappeared from the website. #AbLeg
This was the person hired to replace the person that was removed after the VOLTS losses.
No, I will not be applying for this or any of the other positions.
This is your daily pension announcement. The Pension War Room™️ brings you an official statement from SFPP (municipal police officers)! No, public sector plans are not guaranteed by the GOA, and here is the legislation that shows it....#AbLeg#handsoffmypension
Like SFPP, the ATRF guarantee was removed in 1992. It was replaced with the GOA making joint contributions and accepting joint liability. "Jointly sponsored" in this context means decision making is turned over to a Board with equal representation. #AbLeg#handsoffmypension
Here is a quote from the DM of @Alberta_Finance: "It’s why I’m so distressed when we hear the suggestion that Bill 22 reversed joint governance. I think that that is really unfortunate, that that is one of the claims that’s been made about Bill 22. It’s totally false." #AbLeg