Lifes Moments: Retirements January 2025
Here’s a listing of all those who retired from the City this month...
Lifes Moments: In Memoriam January 2025
Our thoughts and condolences are with the family and friends of the following current and retired City employees who have passed away...
RLACEI: Farewell, Ruth
Effective Dec. 31, 2024, Ruth B. Perry retired from the RLACEI Board as President...
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Carrie’s Corner: Wisdom from RLACEI’s 102-year-old member.
Carrie A. Gabriel began working for the City in 1946 and retired in 1978. Carrie will celebrate her 103rd birthday, Jan 28, 2025. We thought it would be interesting to get her perspective on various topics of the day...
Get Happy Now: Giving
It’s amazing how this works, but giving to someone who is special to you or contributing to a cause or organization can bring a greater sense of satisfaction with life...
Funded Level Increases in LACERS Retirement, Health Plans
LACERS’ actuary, Segal, reports an increase in the funded level of the retirement and health plans for the period ending June 30, 2024...
RLACEI: Holiday Party Sees Transition
This year’s annual RLACEI holiday party enjoyed great friendships renewed, good food, big attendance prizes – and tons more people! The attendance more than doubled this...
Happy Holidays From the RLACEI Board
May your holidays be full of joy, laughter and treasured moments...
LACERS Considers Asset Allocation
One of the most important decisions coming to the LACERS Board of Administration is how to invest the funds that pay for our pensions and healthcare...
Get Happy Now: Purpose
Is your life in retirement worth the wait? Are you living a life of meaning?...
LACERS Sets Assumptions For Long-term Health Costs
How does LACERS plan to ensure that funds are available for your healthcare now as well as many years into the future?...
In Memoriam: For Retired Club Members
Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of these RLACEI members who have recently passed away.
Get Happy Now: Attitude
The Oxford Dictionary defines attitude as a “settled way of thinking or feeling about someone or something...
A Message from President Ruth B. Perry
In the past few days, you may have received a letter and/or invoice from the Employees Club (also known as LACEA) stating that its...
RLACEI hosts an end-of-summer party for the beginning of Latino Heritage Month.
The RLACEI’s end-of-summer Fiesta on Sept. 12, was a delightful event for all attendees. Despite some of us who woke up to shaking and rattling from an earthquake centered in Malibu, the weather was...
LACERS Board Approves Health, Dental, Vision Renewals
Each year, the Benefits Administration Committee, which I chair, reviews the available health plans and approves the plans and premiums for the upcoming year.
Stay Connected With Alive! and the Club: Join Today!
We are urged to start planning for retirement almost from the time we begin work...
When We Plan to Retire
We can all agree that finance is essential to retirement planning and that there are many resources available to us...
LACERS Reports on Private Equity Returns
Now is the time to look again at our Private Equity program since it is a vital part of our investment portfolio at LACERS....
Right Relationships
It’s been said that the two most important days of life are the day we’re born, and the day we discover why...
LACERS Reports on Investment Returns
LACERS recently reported positive investment returns for the quarter ending March 31, 2024, and strong returns for the one-year period...
Retirees on the Move: Meet Esther and Elliott Porter
Meet Esther and Elliott Porter. Both are City of Los Angeles Retirees...
Cyber Security: Why Do We Need It?
As the chair of the LACERS Ad Hoc Cyber Security Committee, I have been involved with this issue since the committee was first formed. Every day we see news reports about another institution that has been victimized by cyberattacks...
Right Relationships
Most of us have heard the saying, “Birds of a feather, fly together.” There is another saying that goes, “If you run with wolves, you will learn how to howl...