Panel mulls ways to combine Minnesota pension funds
Minnesota lawmakers are looking at whether it makes sense to fold some public pension funds into others.
The Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement convenes Wednesday. it will consider the feasibility of a so-called pension fund consolidation assistance account.
The thinking is that such a fund would ease any such mergers. Lawmakers would have to work out where the money would come from to feed the assistance account and what types of costs would be covered.
Minnesota currently has three large statewide public retirement plans and many smaller ones.
The legislative pension commission is made up of five state senators and five House members.
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