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In this episode, Senior Portfolio Manager Chris Benish discusses how passive strategies help diversify the WRS trust funds and play a key role in SWIB’s investment strategy to help keep WRS fully funded.

ETF Budget and Management Director Tarna Hunter recaps three bills passed by the State Senate and Assembly that affect ETF and the benefit programs it administers, after the Legislature concluded the 2023-2024 Regular Session in March 2024.

If you become disabled while working for a WRS employer, you may be eligible to receive WRS disability benefits that will give you income for the time you are unable to return to work.

Understand what happens when your employer dissolves and you become an inactive employee.

Make sure ETF knows who you want to receive your WRS assets upon your death by keeping your beneficiary designation up-to-date.

Approximately $7 billion in benefits were paid by the WRS in 2022, based on the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report recently released by ETF.

Income Continuation Insurance (ICI) is an optional insurance that provides a replacement income for disabilities that are considered short-term in nature, as well as those which may last for extended periods.

The WRS covers employees of the state of Wisconsin and employees of local government employers who elect to participate, and Milwaukee Public School District teachers.

This paper provides comparative data on rates of early retirement among WRS members. Early retirement from the WRS is when a member retires within the window between their minimum retirement age and their statutory normal retirement date.

This report presents the annual actuarial valuations of retired lives covered by the Wisconsin Retirement System as of December 31, 2023.