"I have already reached out to both of the authors, and so I am going to be working on that issue, and I want either or both to communicate with Mr. Bernard and Retirement Study Council staff so that they can explain the methodology that allowed for that computation in the one column of Table 1. We've got to have Mr. Bernard, our staff, be able to reproduce those results." - Rep. Adam Bird, Chair, ORSC

"Retirement at Risk" lends academic support to concerns ORTA has raised for several years about STRS transparency, investment-return reporting and performance bonuses. It credits the ORTA-commissioned Benchmark investigation as part of the chain of events that brought these governance questions to the attention of state auditors and policymakers.

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