Maryland’s public pension system missed its annual target for returns by more than six percentage points in the past fiscal year. Citing a news release from the State Retirement and Pension System, The Washington Post reports that the $45.5 billion ...

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Two Maryland officials are joining the call for more diversity on corporate boards of directors and are hoping to use the state’s pension system as leverage to get it. Comptroller Peter V.R. Franchot and Treasurer Nancy K. Kopp joined a ...

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A task force created to make recommendations for a solution to the lack of retirement savings among private-sector workers faces an uncertain future

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A state pension official told local government leaders that reforms in the last three years will place the state retirement plan on sounder financial footing.

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Nancy K. Kopp rarely speaks out against Gov. Martin J. O'Malley so when the Maryland treasurer appeared at two hearings last week to oppose a proposed diversion of $100 million from the pension, it caught the attention of the media.

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The State Retirement and Pension System’s 14-member board of trustees has voted to keep the assumed rate of return on investments at 7.75 percent. The board, which includes Treasurer Nancy Kopp, voted on Tuesday to keep the assumed rate of ...

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The credit rating front has been quieter Wednesday with Maryland officials believing any Standard & Poor’s rating action will not come soon, if at all. Here are some of the things that didn’t quite make the stories in the dead-tree ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley says tackling Maryland’s ballooning pension liabilities problem should be “front and center” in this upcoming legislative session. O’Malley said Tuesday that taking on the difficult pension issue, as well as transportation funding concerns, should be ...

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