In the second of a four-part series, CalSTRS CEO Jack Ehnes explains how the CalSTRS pension is funded and the long-term nature of planning for pension systems.

Related Video: Pt. 1 I Pt. 3 I Pt. 4

CalSTRS Chief Investment Officer Chris Ailman gives an overview of the investment portfolio and talks about the role investment returns play in the funding of the system.

Part 1: Presentation

Watch the CalSTRS Fall Webinar, Perspectives: CalSTRS 2011.

Presented by CalSTRS CEO Jack Ehnes and Deputy CEO Peggy Plett on October 26, 2010, the webinar focused on sorting fact from fiction surrounding retirement benefits and the long-term funding status of CalSTRS.

At the September 2010 Teachers’ Retirement Board Meeting, a panel of external investment experts provided their perspectives on the current 8 percent investment return assumption.

Competing studies about the state of California’s pension systems—including CalSTRS—have received recent media attention. One report by university students made stunning headlines about the state’s pension liabilities based on questionable research. The result was to make the state’s pension liabilities look much worse than they are.