Are LACERS Investments Bad for Its Members? Pt. 2
Last month I detailed some the issues private equity buyout firms cause in our society. Those issues include, but are not limited to, pursuing profits above care in the healthcare and nursing home industries...
Health Insurance Carriers Refund Surpluses
LACERS has received the return of surpluses of more than $4 million from Anthem Blue Cross, and an amount already with LACERS from Delta Dental that may be used by...
Making Board Member Terms Make Sense
Now that the terms in office for the mayor are based more closely on the calendar year instead of the fiscal year, it’s time to...
Ilesia ‘Faye’ Jones is a Retiree on the Move
Ilesia “Faye” Jones retired in 2020 from Personnel, the same year the Lakers won the NBA Championship, and the Dodgers won the World Series!..
Corrine Chu is Retirees on the Move
Meet Corrine Chu. She prefers to be called “Corrina.” Corrina began her City career in 1969 with the Library as a Clerk Typist. After 33 years, she retired in 2002 from City Planning in the Code Study Division...
LACERS Explores Infrastructure Investing
The LACERS Board of Administration recently received training in infrastructure investing from its general investment consultant, NEPC, LLC. This is the first step that the Board is taking...
Go Big and Small – On Charter Change
The crisis of confidence caused by both alleged and proven corruption by some City Councilmembers as well as the shocking audio recording of...
Get Happy Now
In the fall of 2017, I was surprised and honored that my friend, bestselling author and Blue Zones founder Dan Buettner, opened his newly released book - The Blue Zones of Happiness - with the story of how I re-engineered my life to achieve happiness...
