Anil Niraula
Policy Analyst, Reason Foundation
Anil Niraula is a policy analyst at Reason Foundation.
Niraula holds a BS in Business Management and Administration from Touro University (Moscow), MS in International Business from The University of Edinburgh (Scotland, UK), and MS in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins University.
He is based in Washington, DC.
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New Research Examines Why Public Pension Funding Gaps Are Widening
The financial gap between poorly- and well-funded public pension plans is growing.
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City Budgets Bend Under Growing Pension Costs and Dwindling Revenues
Mounting pension debt costs diverts millions of tax dollars from public services each year.
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Public Pension Funding Remains Challenging, Despite Two-Year Streak of Healthy Investment Returns
What does the investment return for Fiscal Year 2018 mean as part of the big picture?
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Governments Issuing Pension Obligation Bonds Risk Worsening, Not Improving, Their Financial Shape
POBs bring long-term risks that can worsen a government's fiscal health.
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Michigan Treasury Rejects Two-Thirds of Local Government Requests to Circumvent New Pension, OPEB Reporting Standards
This is just the first part of the 2017 legislation designed to shore up locally administered pension plans.
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New Jersey and North Carolina Retirement Systems Modify Investment Return Assumptions in Opposite Directions
Nearly three-fourths of major American public pension plans have reduced their investment return assumptions since the fiscal year 2010.
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Dallas Police and Fire Pension Reforms See Early Success
Dallas is demonstrating the value in passing reforms that focus on core issues of governance and supplementary pension accounts.
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S&P Global Ratings Lowers Credit Outlook for Cook County, Citing Unfunded Pension Liabilities
Cook County’s pension crisis is an explicit example of how pension underfunding can affect credit outlooks and ratings.
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Major Advisors Lower Their Long-Term Investment Return Outlooks, Curbing Public Pension Plans’ Enthusiasm
Public pension plans should use these market outlook updates to better gauge their long-term investment return assumptions and safeguard pension assets from the future market volatilities.