For millions of Americans, retirement comes with an important question: Will the income they have worked decades to earn be enough to support them throughout their retirement years? For public employees who have dedicated their careers to serving their communities, a defined benefit pension can help answer that question.

Every day across Texas, public employees serve their communities. They respond to emergencies. Keep streets and neighborhoods safe. Maintain public services. Answer calls from residents. Keep essential systems running. And perform thousands of other jobs that Texans depend on, often without much public attention.

TEXPERS welcomes two new sponsors of its 2026 Legislative Advocacy Workshop: WCM Investment Management as a Leadership Partner and William Blair as a Workshop Partner. The sponsors support TEXPERS’ efforts to help public pension trustees, administrators, and system leaders prepare for the 90th Texas Legislature, which convenes Jan. 12, 2027. The workshop, themed “Making Your Pension’s Story Impossible to Ignore,” takes place Oct. 27-28 at the Hyatt Centric Congress Austin, 721 Congress Ave. in Austin.

Several notable portfolio manager changes announced in August offer a timely reminder that investment due diligence does not end when a manager is hired.

The Texas Pension Review Board is accepting stakeholder feedback through Friday, Aug. 21, on proposed changes to the Minimum Educational Training program intended to improve compliance among public retirement system trustees and administrators.

The Texas County & District Retirement System has committed €35 million, approximately $40.5 million, to Aspira Fund I (D) AB, according to the retirement system’s latest investment disclosure. TCDRS listed Aug. 18 as the closing or subscription date for the private equity commitment.

The 90th Texas Legislature convenes Jan. 12, 2027, leaving public pension trustees and administrators a limited window to prepare for discussions about issues affecting their retirement systems and members. TEXPERS is helping System Members prepare through its 2026 Legislative Advocacy Workshop, set for Oct. 27-28 at the Hyatt Centric Congress Austin.

Pension Review Board Executive Director Amy Cardona will leave the agency Sept. 25 because of a planned family relocation, the PRB announced Friday, Aug. 14.

The Texas Pension Review Board has opened a 30‑day public comment period on proposed amendments to the rules governing Funding Soundness Restoration Plans.

The TEXPERS 2026 Summer Educational Forum brought public pension trustees, administrators, investment professionals and industry leaders together Aug. 2-4 at The Westin Riverwalk in San Antonio.

Texas pension trustees and administrators do not need another stack of numbers. They need reliable information that helps them ask better questions, spot risks and explain the value of their retirement systems.

After a career in public administration that took him across the country, former TEXPERS Executive Director Max Patterson is settling into a new chapter in Aurora, Colorado — one shaped by family, community, and a renewed sense of purpose.

For the first time since the Texas Legislature instituted Funding Soundness Restoration Plans (FSRP) in 2015, the Pension Review Board learned in July that no Texas public pension system is currently subject to an active FSRP.

The Texas Pension Review Board has added a Minimum Educational Training, or MET, dashboard to its Pension Online Reporting Tool, known as PORT.

TEXPERS thanks Wolf Popper LLP for its sponsorship of TEXPERS conferences and publications.

Intercontinental Real Estate Corp., an Associate Member of TEXPERS, will participate as a Silver Sponsor of the TEXPERS 2026 Summer Educational Forum, scheduled for Aug. 2-4 at the Westin Riverwalk San Antonio.

TEXPERS is pleased to announce that Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP has signed on as a Table Sponsor for The Hat Affair: A Brunch Extravaganza, scheduled for 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 2, during the TEXPERS 2026 Summer Educational Forum in San Antonio.

Artificial intelligence and digital finance are no longer experimental concepts sitting on the edge of the financial services industry. They are increasingly part of the operational and investment infrastructure that shapes how institutions communicate, manage risk, process transactions, detect fraud, and interact with financial markets.

Public pension trustees, administrators, investment professionals, and industry partners from across Texas gathered April 26–29 for the TEXPERS 2026 Annual Conference at the Galveston Island Convention Center at The San Luis Resort.