The computer system PERA uses to track and pay out benefits is 40 years old – the oldest still in use by any public pension in the U.S. Colorado’s public pension board earlier this month agreed to a ...

In Colorado, conservative think tanks are spreading anti-public-worker propaganda claiming that PERA (Public Employees’ Retirement Association) employees and retirees are greedy parasites and their ...

DENVER — The Colorado Public Employees’ Retirement Association (PERA), which provides pension benefits to public employees in the state, will divest millions from Russia's largest financial ...

In a high-stakes legal action into uncharted territory it seemed the city of Colorado Springs and the Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association each had a case in the fight over pension ...

STERLING — PERA (Public Employees’ Retirement Association) works for Colorado. That was the message Gregory Smith, executive director of Colorado PERA, shared Wednesday at a Rotary Club meeting that ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... PERA’s 2014 rate of return on investment was 5.7 percent. (Thinkstock) Re: “A lackluster year for PERA pension fund,” July 3 editorial. Once again The Denver ...

The PERA board opposes the move and other proposed legislation affecting the state's pension plan. Breaking down along party lines, the Colorado Senate approved a bill that would cap employer ...

Republican lawmakers are forging ahead with a series of bills that would impose new restraints on the Colorado public retirement system and its managers, setting the tone for a debate that is all but ...

What is the purpose of state government: To provide basic services to the public, or ever-increasing amounts of money to pension funds? That's the question Colorado taxpayers will be asking today, ...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Colorado Public Employees’ Retirement Association (PERA) Executive Director Meredith Williams has announced that he will leave PERA after 12 years to become the executive ...

Gregory W. Smith, executive director of the $48 billion Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association, Denver, died suddenly Tuesday. Mr. Smith was vacationing in Hawaii with his family and ...