ERSRI News Archive

January 13, 2020

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

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 19, 2019

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

October 30, 2019

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

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 02, 2019

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 19, 2019

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

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 01, 2019

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: