The agenda for ORSC's meeting on October 8, 2026, includes a discussion of the 'Retirement at Risk' research document, which raises questions about discrepancies between our pension system and the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS).

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The next attorney general must take a proactive approach to these boards and the Ohio Retirement Study Council. Years of turmoil need to end. For nearly a decade, STRS pensioners didn’t receive a cost-of-living adjustment — and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Numerous financial experts, including our own state auditor, have questioned STRS investment practices and suggested they have cost members billions of dollars. Too many fees and investment expenses go unaccounted for because of how we operate. We are incentivizing staff to direct our monies into a black hole.

The public does not need access to every so-called portfolio-company trade secret. It does need enough information to determine whether the people entrusted with public retirement money are protecting the public—or merely signing what Wall Street puts in front of them.

In simple terms the paper alleges that STRS uses self-reported investment returns to justify payment of PBI (bonus) to its investment staff while the audit driven returns are far less than what STRS uses to award bonus payments to staff. The audit driven returns are significantly lower than the returns calculated by STRS staff, suggesting that investment staff have received bonus payments that the data do not support.

Retired teachers met with Ohio House candidates Cecil Thomas and Rachel Baker at the September 15th meeting of the Hamilton County Retired Teachers Association. The candidates shared their views on issues important to retired educators.

If you’re a participant in a state pension, there’s a full-length documentary about public pensions that state officials and their Wall Street allies do not want you to see. At its center, the film asks a simple but urgent question: Who is protecting the retirement savings of public workers when those charged with oversight cannot obtain the information necessary to fulfill their fiduciary duties?

Many states have underfunded pensions, which has led some states to cut pension benefits and others to raise taxes on the public. The documentary attributes this in part to the move into alternative investments, citing their high fees and returns that don’t meet benchmarks.