Anil Niraula
Quantitative Policy Analyst, Reason Foundation
Anil Niraula is a quantitative policy analyst with Reason Foundation’s Pension Integrity Project. He primarily focuses on historical and predictive analysis of public pension finances using best practices, including actuarial modeling, to inform pension policy in different states. He also regularly writes for reason.org.
Prior to joining Reason Anil interned at the Heritage Foundation, and worked at the International Monetary Fund in projects officer capacity conducting data analytics. He holds MS in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins University (Washington, D.C.).
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New Mexico Educational Retirement Board Pension Solvency Analysis
New Mexico's Educational Retirement Board has $7.9 billion in unfunded pension liabilities.
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Louisiana State Employees’ Retirement System Pension Solvency Analysis
The Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System has only 64 percent of the assets needed to fully fund the pension system.
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Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana Pension Solvency Analysis
The latest, official numbers reveal that the Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana now has over $10 billion in unfunded pension liabilities.
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The Funded Status of State-Managed Public Pension Plans
State-level public pension plans' funded status dropped from 97.7 percent in 2001 to 73.6 percent in 2019.
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Employees Retirement System of Texas Solvency Analysis
Underperforming investment returns have been the biggest contributor to the growing unfunded liability, adding $8.2 billion in debt to the system since 2001.
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Risk Assessment Shows New Mexico Pension Reform Protects Plan Members and Taxpayers
Recent reforms could save New Mexico employers and taxpayers as much as 28 percent in total pension costs over the next 30 years.
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New Mexico Public Employees Retirement Association Solvency Analysis
PERA administrators and stakeholders are likely to face persistent challenges made more pronounced by ongoing market and revenue volatility.
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Arkansas Teacher Retirement System Pension Solvency Analysis
Investment returns failing to meet unrealistic expectations has been the single largest contributor to unfunded liability growth, adding $1.9 billion in debt to ATRS since 2000.
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Public Pension Plans Weren’t Meeting Investment Expectations Long Before the Coronavirus
A reliance on overly optimistic assumed rates of investment returns was driving the increases in public pension debt before the recent economic downturn.