PA’s $57 billion pension fund chooses a history teacher as new chair

Christopher Santa Maria, former head of the Lower Merion teachers union and a history teacher in that wealthy township’s public schools, is the new chairman of the $57 billion-asset Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System (PSERS). Since the financial crisis, the pension fund has been funded partly by investment profits but principally by taxpayers.

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Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, January 16, 2020.