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Contact

Information

 

Mailing Address

PAPERS
PO Box 61543
Harrisburg, PA 17106-1543

 

Shipping Address

PAPERS
300 Swatara Street

Dauphin, PA  17018-0765

 

Staff

Karen K. Deklinski
Executive Director
Phone: 717-979-5788
E-mail:
kdeklinski@msn.com

Douglas A. Bonsall

Director of Operations/Office Manager
Phone: 717-921-1957
E-mail: douglas.b@verizon.net

 

PAPERS Brochure


2024 PAPERS Membership and Sponsor Fees


2024 PAPERS Membership Application

 

PAPERS By-Laws

 

 

2024

Conferences


In-Person @ Harrisburg Hilton Hotel

 

Spring Forum

May 21-23, 2024

 

Fall Workshop

November 13-14, 2024

 

 

PAPERS looks forward to welcoming you to these annual opportunities for networking and education, designed especially for Pennsylvania's public pension fund representatives and those companies providing service to the pension industry.

 


Click here to access a Presenter Application for PAPERS Conferences if you are interested in suggesting a topic and/or speaker(s) for one of PAPERS' two annual conferences.

 

 

 

 

Participating Members | Affiliate & Sustaining Members | Associate Members | Join PAPERS

 

Welcome to PAPERS Website

To learn more about PAPERS, please click here.


 

 

The Mission of the Pennsylvania Association of Public Employee Retirement Systems (PAPERS)

shall be to encourage and facilitate the education of its membership in all matters related to their duties as fiduciaries overseeing the assets of the pension funds with which they have been entrusted.  It will be PAPERS' primary purpose to conduct an annual educational forum that provides the basis for improved financial and operational performance of the public employee retirement systems in the State. PAPERS will function as a central resource for educational purposes and act as a networking agent for all public plan staff and board members.

 

Congratulations, SERS! Joe Torta, Executive Director of the PA State Employees Retirement System (SERS), has joined the PAPERS Board of Directors as a plan member. Established in 1923, SERS is one of the oldest and largest public employee pension plans in the nation and joins fellow plan members PSERS, PMRS, the City of Philadelphia, and the counties of Dauphin, Lebanon, and York on the PAPERS Board. These plans represent the top public pension plans in Pennsylvania, not only in size but in forward thinking, their contemporary approach to training and their unwavering desire for fiduciary excellence.
Training its members and all the members of PAPERS would not be possible without the guidance, support and experience of our Corporate Advisory Committee Members:

  • BNY Mellon
  • CS McKee
  • Neuberger Berman
  • Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check
  • The Hazzouri Group at Morgan Stanley
  • Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann
  • Korn Ferry
  • NAREIT

This is the heart of PAPERS as an organization, and their unwavering focus leads us to announce the reopening of our certificate program in partnership with Penn State Behrend.  Our first plan member to complete the online portion of the new program was A.C. Stickel from Blair County.  CONGRATULATIONS, A.C.!!!  In A. C.’s words, “I don’t know why I waited so long to do this! “.
The job of a trustee for a public pension plan is the most important role in the industry. I am so proud of PAPERS’ ability to support all public plans in Pennsylvania in their quest for fiduciary excellence. I would urge every plan to enroll today in the online training section of the certificate program.  More information about the certification may be found in this newsletter and on the PAPERS website!

Karen Deklinski
PAPERS Executive Director

 


From the Desk of the PAPERS Board President

 

MettleyThanks to all who attended the recent PAPERS 20223 Fall Workshop at the Harrisburg Hilton. We were excited to return to a totally in-person format. We heard from all of you that we miss the interaction with our peers and frankly so did I. The in-person format gives us more opportunities to interact and network with fellow members and sponsors.

From benefit disbursements to private equity to deferred compensation to risk management and other topics we covered during the conference, we also had the added benefit of enjoying each other’s company at the National Civil War Museum Wednesday evening.  None of this is possible without all our corporate sponsors and most especially our long-time friend, supporter and founding board member Platinum Sponsor BNY Mellon and our second Platinum Sponsor Bernstein litowitz Berger and Grossmann LLP.  Sponsors pave the way for PAPERS' continued success.

PAPERS is already planning for its 2024 conferences; see those dates below. Reserve the dates and plan to attend.

Bob Mettley
PAPERS Board President  

 

2024 conferences

 

 

 

 

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Click here for the conference agenda.

 

Thank you to these corporate sponsors for this conference:

Platinum Sponsors - BNY Mellon; Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP

Gold Sponsors - Ares Management; Neuberger Berman

Silver Sponsors - Capital Dynamics; Motley Rice LLC; Nareit

 


 

PAPERS Newsletter

Just below you'll find a link to the latest edition of the PAPERS newsletter (Summer 2023). Our goal is to provide interesting reading and a variety of points of interest to spark conversations in the realm of public pensions.   Thank you to those who have contributed articles and suggestions to this edition. 

 

Click here to access the latest issue of the PAPERS e-newletter (Summer 2023).

 


 

Certified PA Public Retirement Plan Professional

 

PAPERS has a new certification program designed to provide a high quality educational opportunity for public pension trustees, pension administrators and staff, and industry professionals to help them fulfill their fiduciary responsibilities.

Click here for more information.

 


 

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