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Girard Miller

Girard Miller

Finance Columnist

Girard Miller is the finance columnist for Governing. He is a retired investment and public finance professional and the author of “Enlightened Public Finance” (2019). Miller brings 30 years of experience in public finance and investments as a former Governmental Accounting Standards Board member and ICMA Retirement Corp. president.

Miller writes Governing's bi-weekly newsletter on public finance, which you can sign up for here.

He can be reached at millergirard@yahoo.com. 

It's time to revisit and rebalance investment allocations.
The next-gen target-date funds for 457 plans have lower fees and consistent returns.
Regulate, don't prohibit, qualified organizations.
Congress can't repeal the laws of supply and demand.
Rules should also govern 457 and 403b plans.
It's time to restore balance to the funding of pension plans.
Local pension costs may triple in New York State, meaning costs will outrun revenues, even when the recession ends.
States and cities have a lot of reasons for inaction on funding retiree medical benefits. Some of their excuses are pretty flimsy.
How Build America Bonds have crowded out 'Benefits Bonds.'
Constitutional curbs for runaway public pension plans