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As research
director for the
National Association of State Retirement Administrators,
Keith Brainard collects, prepares and distributes to
NASRA members news, studies and reports pertinent to public
retirement system administration and policy. NASRA members
are the directors and administrators of 82 statewide
public retirement systems in the United States. Combined,
these systems hold assets of more than $2 trillion in
trust to fund pension and other benefits for most of the
nation’s 22 million working and retired employees of state
and local government.
Mr. Brainard has testified on public pension issues before Congress and
state legislative committees, and he speaks regularly before public pension boards of
trustees and other groups. He is co-author of the
“Governmental Plans Answer Book, Second Edition,
author of the NASRA white paper, Myths
& Misperceptions of Defined Benefit and Defined
Contribution Plans,” and co-author of a 2004
Pension Research Council working paper, “Profitable
Prudence: The Case for Public Defined Benefit Plans.”
Keith also maintains the
Public Fund Survey, an online compendium of public
pension data sponsored jointly by NASRA and the
National Council on Teacher Retirement.
Mr. Brainard previously served as manager of budget & planning for the
Arizona State Retirement System and he provided fiscal
research and analysis for the Texas and Arizona
legislatures. He has a master’s degree from the University
of Texas-Austin,
LBJ School of Public Affairs.
Keith
Brainard
Research
Director
National
Association of State Retirement Administrators
PO Box 980
Georgetown, TX 78627-0980
keithb@nasra.org
512-868-2774
www.nasra.org
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