At 1.6 million workers invested with CalPERS, a shocking number was released today… +1%. (Read the Article) Now, this isn’t that infamous one percent that were touted in the media recently. The 1% we are talking about here: the return CalPERS generated for those 1.6 million clients over the last year (June 30, 2011 – [...]

Inside Job Inside Job, Narrated by Matt Damon (Full Length HD) from jwrock on Vimeo. If you haven’t seen this movie, set aside time now to do so. If you know someone who should see this movie, share it now. This is a film every American needs to watch. Delving into the fraud and corruption [...]

Here at UrPension LLC we’re passionate about Retirement, and for many of you that means knowing what’s going on with the Pension System. While employees are less likely to rely on pensions, as the majority of companies have stopped offering the Defined Benefit Model, pensions still are the main retirement vehicle for government employees. One [...]

On Monday, an interesting article was released with the opinions of Chief Executive Officer Robert Benmosche of AIG. You might remember AIG as the world’s largest Insurer before the 2008 Crisis, during which American Insurance Group (AIG) took a multi-billion dollar bailout from the US Government. With the Crisis now into its 3rd year and AIG’s bailout shoring [...]

The traditional idea of a Pension Plan from your work has slipped into the past. Most of today’s companies have done away with the Defined Benefit model for Pensioning their employees. Instead, companies and the government have gone with a method that places the burdon of managing these critical funds on the people depending on [...]

American households have not prepared for how to pay themselves during retirement, leaving themselves at risk of having a personal financial crisis. “How will I use my house, Social Security, job benefits, and savings to earn an income during retirement?” These questions must be answered by everyone in order to know your financial situation.  Advice from [...]

Why your current retirement plan might not be enough Everyone wants to retire in comfort. To that end, we contribute diligently to our IRAs and 401(k) plans in order to build our safety net, and hope that the Social Security program is still viable when we hit retirement age. But will you need your own [...]