Anil Niraula was a quantitative policy analyst with Reason Foundation's Pension Integrity Project.
Niraula focused on historical and predictive analysis of public pension finances using actuarial modeling to inform pension policy. At Reason, Niraula contributed analysis of the Arkansas TRS, Louisiana LASERS, Louisiana TRSL, New Mexico ERB, and New Mexico PERA pension systems.
Niraula’s work has been published by The Independent Institute and Georgia Public Policy Foundation. Niraula presented a panel paper at the APPAM 42nd Annual Fall Research Conference.
Prior to joining Reason, Anil worked as a projects officer in data analytics at the International Monetary Fund. He holds an MS in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins University (Washington, D.C.).
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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.