Tag Archive: retirement fund

Put Unused Pension Plan Dollars to Work for South Carolina Employees

Tax & Budget
Blog · December 11, 2025

This column by Palmetto Promise board member Barry Wynn was originally published in FitsNews. For more than three decades, I’ve worked at the intersection of investment management, retirement planning, and sound public policy — helping families plan for their futures and advising institutions on how to safeguard the assets entrusted to them. As former Chairman

South Carolina’s State Retirement System: A Look Behind the Curtain

Tax & Budget
Blog · February 24, 2025

In 2015, South Carolina’s Office of the State Treasurer released a report on the health of the state employee retirement system entitled “The Pothole that you can’t see.” In this examination of our state’s pension system, the numbers were shocking. According to the report, as of 2015, the state retirement system’s unfunded liability stood at