Truong Bui
Managing Director, Reason Foundation
Truong Bui is a managing director of the Pension Integrity Project.
Bui primarily works on the pension team's data and quantitative work and has contributed to numerous policy studies and data visualizations.
Prior to joining Reason, Bui was a financial analyst for Thien Viet Securities, a local investment bank in Vietnam, where he specialized in business valuation and investment memo preparation.
Bui graduated from RMIT University Vietnam with a bachelor's degree in commerce and received a Masters of Business Administration, with an emphasis in finance, from the Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University.
Bui is based in Los Angeles.
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Best practices for pension debt amortization
Amortization policy is at the core of the successful elimination of pension debt.
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The impact of cash flow on public pensions
This policy brief uses the Montana Public Employee Retirement System (PERS) as a case study to illustrate the principles and importance of conducting a cash flow analysis of public pension plans.
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Analysis of South Carolina Senate Bill 176
Senate Bill 176 would provide new hires a secure and attractive retirement plan that better protects the state's taxpayers.
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New Mexico Educational Retirement Board Pension Solvency Analysis
New Mexico's Educational Retirement Board has $7.9 billion in unfunded pension liabilities.
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The “New Normal” In Public Pension Investment Returns
The primary culprit of growing pension debt has been the across-the-board investment underperformance of pension assets relative to plans’ own return targets.
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North Carolina Teachers’ and State Employees’ Retirement System: A Pension Solvency Analysis
Better risk management and more realistic plan assumptions can help ensure the state delivers the promised retirement benefits to its employees.
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Assessing the Financial Sustainability of Montana’s Largest Public Pension Systems
Despite investment markets showing historic gains, Montana’s public pension systems are experiencing an increase in unfunded liabilities and are likely to continue on their path to insolvency if needed technical adjustments aren't made.
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A 2018 Evaluation of LAUSD’s Fiscal Outlook: Revisiting the Findings of the 2015 Independent Financial Review Panel
Los Angeles Unified School District is unique in California and the nation because the size of its projected budget deficits and overall debt dwarfs most other urban school districts.
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Did Pension Reform Improve the Sustainability of Pension Plans?
Evidence from a Counterfactual Analysis of Michigan and Alaska