{"id":261622,"date":"2026-01-28T09:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/261622\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:47:12","slug":"stock-surge-boosts-pensions-but-private-markets-risks-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/261622\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock Surge Boosts Pensions, but Private Markets Risks Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">US public pensions could pay almost 90% of promised benefits if investment gains made in the first half of the fiscal year persist over the next six months, but risks are also climbing, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/SPGI:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">S&amp;P Global Inc.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Record-breaking stock returns and a solid bond market powered pensions to returns of about 8.5% from July through December, according to the rating company. Public pension funding levels would rise to 89% from 81% if performance in the second half of the fiscal year mirrors the first, S&amp;P said in a report Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US public pensions could pay almost 90% of promised benefits if investment gains made in the first half&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[343,1577,114,3313,9575,4318,268,85,4486,46,190,266,267,19125,3238,137652,196],"class_list":["post-261622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-bonds","tag-business","tag-earnings","tag-economic-growth","tag-federal-reserve","tag-finance","tag-il","tag-interest-rates","tag-israel","tag-markets","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-private-credit","tag-private-equity","tag-sp-global-inc","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}