Arkansas Public Employees Retirement System

Both systems, the state’s largest pension funds, exceeded their goals for returns after a dismal fiscal 2022, and both also have new leaders fresh out of state agencies. read more >

She previously served as the first secretary of the state Department of Transformation & Shared Services since July 2019. read more >

Duncan Baird said the Arkansas Public Employees Retirement System had one of its best years even during the COVID-19 pandemic. read more >

Many experts say the best way to invest for retirement is to put money in stocks and bonds and then hold tight. read more >

Unique digital assets fuel market that exploded to $2 billion in Q1 of this year. read more >

The Arkansas Teacher Retirement System expects to see a loss of 1% on its investments for its fiscal year that ended June 30, marking the first decrease since 2009. read more >

Five weeks after allegations surfaced that former Craighead County Clerk Jacob “Kade” Holliday had embezzled more than $1.6 million from taxpayers, another purported victim was still looking for answers. read more >

Two of Arkansas’ largest retirement funds are looking for law firms to represent them in securities class-action lawsuits, which could mean huge paydays for the firms but not for the funds. read more >

Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Larry Walther, director of the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration, says that Jake Bleed will be the department's state budget director. read more >

The seven justices who sit on the Arkansas Supreme Court have a wide range of business investments, from property to tower rent for a radio station. read more >

Gail Stone joined the Arkansas Public Employees Retirement System as an investment supervisor, moved up to director of investments and then was named deputy director before being chosen by the APERS Board of Trustees to serve as executive director in 2001. read more >

The Arkansas state public pension system has six different plans, the largest two of which represent 90 percent of the active members and more than 85 percent of total pension funds. There are more than 65,000 retired members associated with these two pensions, namely, the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System and the Arkansas Public Employees Retirement System. read more >

Pulaski County Circuit Judge Tim Fox rules that National Timber Partners LLC of Williamstown, Mass., breached its contract with the Arkansas Public Employees Retirement System and ordered the company to pay APERS $16.5 million. read more >

Americans are notoriously ignorant about basic personal finance, and Arkansans are even less financially savvy than the national average, according to a nationwide study conducted by the FINRA Investor Education Foundation. read more >