ERSRI News Archive

January 13, 2020: Members of fifty-four municipal (MERS) pension plans will receive a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2020. All members of these 54 plans who retired before June 30,…

January 10, 2020: ERSRI will begin mailing 1099-R forms to retirees on or before January 13, 2020 - with all 1099s expected to be mailed by January 31st. Retirees should receive their 1099-…

November 2019: The Fall 2019 issue of Compass, ERSRI's member newsletter, is now available for download.

October 30, 2019: The Rhode Island pension fund returned 0.80% during the month of September; earning $67.8 million, with low-fee index funds driving investment performance slightly above…

October 23, 2019: Rhode Island Treasurer Seth Magaziner, along with institutional investors from states across the region, today announced the Northeast Investors’ Diversity Initiative, a…

October 2, 2019: The Rhode Island pension fund finished well ahead of U.S. and global stock markets in August due to the defensively positioned investments in the fund's portfolio.

September 2019: The Employees’ Retirement System of Rhode Island (ERSRI) will hold an election for seven new Board members in January 2020. 

August 16, 2019: Rhode Island's pension system continues to improve its relative investment performance when compared to similarly sized public pension funds, outperforming 78% of its peers…

August 1, 2019: You may have recently received a postcard or e-mail asking you to complete a member survey. The Retirement System is asking our members to tell us how we can: