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The SWIB Podcast: Wisconsin Retirement System InsightsPresented by the State of Wisconsin Investment Board Author: SWIB Staff
News and insights about the complex, prudent, and disciplined investment strategies the State of Wisconsin Investment Board has put in place to help grow and protect the assets of the Wisconsin Retirement System. Navigating todays financial markets takes innovative thinking to design and implement investment strategies that control risk while generating reasonable returns. In a time when public pension funds across the country are struggling with issues related to underfunding, SWIB has helped fuel one of the only fully funded pension systems in the U.S. Join us as we talk about the importance of managing assets in a more challenging environment and optimizing cost over the long term on behalf of the more than 642,000 current and former state and local government employees and their families who rely on the WRS for some of their retirement security. SWIB is recognized as a premier investment organization because of its strong management of the trust funds of the WRS and several other smaller trust funds. SWIB has been successful in generating respectable returns to help ensure the WRS is able to meet its obligations today and in the future. Language: en Genres: Business, Government, Investing Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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SWIB Market Update - Q2 2026 (Jul. 13, 2026)
Wednesday, 15 July, 2026
Each quarter, hear from SWIB staff about the economy, the markets, and how the Wisconsin Retirement System trust funds are impacted. Learn how SWIB is working to help the Wisconsin Retirement System remain among the nation’s most resilient pension funds – growing and protecting participants’ benefits and giving them peace of mind to focus on work, life, and the future. In this market update, we welcome Jeff Lucas, a senior portfolio manager on SWIB’s Fixed Income Strategies team, to talk about the issues that impacted the markets through the first quarter of the year and what we might expect as we make our way further into 2026.
