Eight years ago when I was appointed to serve on the Fire & Police Pension Association Board, I had no idea of the journey ahead of me. During this time, many milestones have occurred… I’ve helped strengthen the funding stream for benefits, ins
4 Actual #MillennialRetirementPlans You Won’t Find on Twitter
Earlier this week, you might have noticed #MillennialRetirementPlans trending on Twitter. If you clicked on it, you'd find Twitter users predicting what their personal and financial lives would be like in retirement. And since Twitter is, well, T
DROP vs. Deferred Retirement
Here’s a question we often hear from members: what is the difference between DROP and Deferred Retirement? Some confusion is definitely understandable. After all, the "D" and "R" in DROP stand for Deferred Retirement. So already, we’re starting fro
Statewide Plans Task Force Makes Recommendations to the FPPA Board
In summer 2018, the FPPA Board of Directors created a Statewide Plans Task Force with the express purpose of studying the statewide plans managed by FPPA. This includes the Statewide Defined Benefit Plan (SWDB), the Statewide Death & Disability
What We Learned From Our Most Recent Member Survey
FPPA prides itself on keeping up with our members, and not just at the big moments: enrollment, opening a 457 plan, entering DROP, filing retirement paperwork. We like to know what’s going on in between these big moments so we can share in the ups, d
What a Prolific Jeopardy! Champion Can Teach You About Retirement Planning
For the last several weeks, a young Jeopardy! champion has been burning through his opponents. More accurately, 35-year-old James Holzhauer has been chewing up adversaries like Joey Chestnut dominates a pile of hot