Merritt Research Services recently added the following fields to CreditScope for Pension Data and will be providing data on these fields respectively:

  • Total Percent Contributed of ARC for all pension plans in the City, County, School District, Special District and State sectors.
  • Total Participants in each Pension Plan with the following breakout: Employee Participants, Retiree & Beneficiary Participants and Terminated Employee Participants, along with the ratio "% Retiree Participants". The Participants will be provided for single employer pension plans in the City, County, School District and Special District sectors. The Participants will be provided for all pension plans in the State sector.

If you are not seeing this information in CreditScope, please check the date of your most recent software system update by clicking on the [Help] button on the top menu bar of your screen. Then, click on [About CreditScope]. In the resulting pop-up box, check the line that reads: "Invest.exe date." In order to see this new information, this date needs to be 10/22/2013 or later. If your "Invest.exe date" does not appear to be current, please consult with someone in your IT department to inquire about scheduling more frequent software system updates.

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