Corrections Officer Retirement Plan Comprehensive Annual Report 2012

              CORRECTIONS OFFICER
RETIREMENT PLAN
26th COMPREHENSIVE ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT
A PENSION TRUST FUND OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA
FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2012
VISION
VALUES
MISSION
 Invest, secure and manage responsibly the retirement funds of its members in accordance with all
legal, investment and financial requirements and in a manner consistent with the quality to which its
members have become accustomed.
 To be a low cost, highly personalized quality service provider of funds management and benefit ser-vices.
 To manage long-term investments with the goal of consistently outperforming over time the com-posite
weighted market return benchmark net of all investment related costs so as to assure the fi-nancial
integrity of the funds and the security of the benefits these funds provide.
Do what is best for our members and financial health and integrity of the System.
 Be proactive.
 Committed to high quality, uniform, sustainable service.
 Innovative and cost effective in Plan administration and services.
Use best practices in HR management.
Our Vision, Mission & Values
Corrections Officer
Retirement Plan
A Pension Trust Fund of the State of Arizona
Twenty-Sixth
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report
For the Fiscal Year Ended
June 30, 2012
Prepared by the Staff of PSPRS
Public Safety Personnel Retirement System
3010 E. Camelback Road, Suite 200
Phoenix, AZ 85016
Phone (602)255-5575 Fax (602)255-5572
www.psprs.com
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTORY SECTION
Certificate of Achievement 6
Board of Trustees Transmittal Letter 7
Letter from the Administrator 10
Board of Trustees 14
Executive Staff and Organizational Chart 15
Professional Advisors 16
FINANCIAL SECTION
Independent Auditor Report 18
Management Discussion and Analysis 20
Basic Financial Statements
Statement of Plan Net Assets 24
Statement of Changes in Plan Net Assets 25
Notes to the Financial Statements 26
Required Supplementary Information
Schedule of Funding Progress 39
Schedule of Employer Contributions 39
Notes to the Required Supplementary Information 41
Supporting Schedules Information
Schedule of Changes in Reserve Balances 42
Schedule of Receipts and Disbursements 43
Schedule of Administrative Expenses 44
Schedule of Consultant Expenses 45
Other Supplementary Information
Statement of Changes in Assets and Liabilities - Agency Fund 46
Schedule of Funding Progress - Agency Fund 46
INVESTMENT SECTION
Chief Investment Officer’s Letter 48
Fund Investment Objectives 50
Investment Performance
Asset Allocation 50
Annualized Rates of Return, Benchmark and Indices 51
Top 10 Investment Holdings 52
Summary of Changes in Investment Portfolio 52
Schedule of Commissions Paid to Brokers 52
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Equity Portfolio 55
Fixed Income Portfolio 56
Alternative Investments Portfolio
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ACTUARIAL SECTION
Actuary Certification Letter 64
Actuarial Balance Sheet 67
Summary of Valuation Assumptions 68
Solvency Test 70
Summary of Active Member Data 71
Summary of Retirees and Inactive Members 72
Schedule of Experience Gain/Loss 73
STATISTICAL SECTION
Statistical Summary 76
Changes in Plan Net Assets - Last Ten Fiscal Years 77
Schedule of Revenue by Source - Last Ten Fiscal Years 78
Schedule of Expenses by Type - Last Ten Fiscal Years 78
Deductions from Plan Net Assets for Benefits and Refunds by Type- Last Ten Fiscal Years 78
Valuation Assets vs. Pension Liabilities - Last Ten Fiscal Years 79
Contribution Rates - Last Ten Fiscal Years 81
Distribution of Benefit Recipients by Location 82
System Membership - Last Ten Fiscal Years 82
Principal Participating Employers - Last Ten Fiscal Years 83
Summary of Benefit Increases - Last Ten Fiscal Years 83
Summary of Growth of the System - Last Ten Fiscal Years 84
Benefits Payable by Benefit Type 84
Average Monthly Benefits and Membership - Last Ten Fiscal Years 85
Schedule of Changes in Refundable Member Reserve Balances 86
Schedule of Changes in Employer Reserve Balances and UAAL 87
Schedule of Changes in Employers Earnings Distribution 88
Participating Employers 89
Credit Opportunities Portfolio
Private Equity Portfolio
Real Assets Portfolio
Real Estate Portfolio
GTAA Securities Portfolio
Absolute Return Portfolio 61
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INTRODUCTORY SECTION
Certificate of Achievement 6
Board of Trustees Transmittal Letter 7
Letter from the Administrator 10
Board of Trustees 14
Executive Staff and Organizational Chart 15
Professional Advisors 16
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PUBLIC SAFETY PERSONNEL RETIREMENT SYSTEM
Brian P. Tobin, Chairman CORRECTIONS OFFICER RETIREMENT PLAN
Gregory Ferguson, Vice Chair ELECTED OFFICIALS' RETIREMENT PLAN
Jeff Allen McHenry, Trustee 3010 East Camelback Road, Suite 200
Richard J. Petrenka, Trustee Phoenix, Arizona 85016-4416 James M. Hacking
Randie A. Stein, Trustee www.psprs.com Administrator
Lauren Kingry, Trustee TELEPHONE: (602) 255-5575 Ryan Parham Jared A. Smout
William C. Davis, Trustee FAX: (602) 255-5572 Chief Investment Officer Deputy Administrator
November 20, 2012
The Honorable Janice K. Brewer
Governor of the State of Arizona
Executive Tower
1700 W. Washington
Phoenix, Arizona 85007
Dear Governor Brewer:
The Board of Trustees of the Public Safety Personnel Retirement System (PSPRS) respectfully submits the Twenty-sixth Comprehensive Annual
Financial Report (CAFR) for the Corrections Officer Retirement Plan (CORP) for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2012 (FY’12), in accordance with the
provisions of A.R.S. Section 38-883.
The CORP’s Funding Status
As of fiscal year-end, the financial status of the CORP, as reflected in its funding ratio, decreased from 73.0% at June 30, 2011 to 67.8% at June 30,
2012. This decrease continues the funding ratio erosion that resumed three years ago following a modest improvement in FY’08 that interrupted
six consecutive years of funding status decline.
The continuing funding ratio decline that began in FY’02 is due primarily to the asset value losses and negative rates of return that the Plan experi-enced
in FY’01 and FY’02 ($155.8 million) coupled with the additional losses and negative rates of return the Plan experienced in FY’08 and FY’09
and now again in FY’12. The losses in FY’01 and FY’02 were largely the result of a lack of investment diversification and an over-concentration in
high technology and telecommunication stocks and bonds at a time when the “tech-telecom bubble” was deflating. The FY’08 and FY’09 losses
were the result of the impact on the financial markets of the collapse of the U.S. housing market and the intense global recession that followed.
The FY’12 actuarial loss due to investment return that reflects the Plan’s -0.79% return (net of fees) was the result of two factors: first, weakness
and volatility in the financial markets – especially the international equity markets – that resulted from weakness in the U.S. and global econo-mies;
and, second, an actual rate of return that was significantly less than the Plan’s benchmark return (2.89%) for the fiscal year.
A second factor that has also contributed significantly to the funding erosion was the downward revision in the Plan’s actuarial assumption for
investment return. (That assumption was reduced by one-half of 1% from 8.5% in FY’10 to 8.0% in FY’12 and will be reduced further to 7.8% for
FY’13.) Downward revision in this assumption reduces the projected rate of growth in Plan assets relative to the rate of growth in liability for bene-fits
and that, in turn, diminishes the Plan’s funding ratio (and adds to the employer contribution requirement).
It should be noted that the Plan’s funding ratio decreased during fiscal years 2010 and 2011 even though the Plan had strong rates of return in
those years (13.47% in FY’10 and 17.37% in FY’11). This is because the CORP uses a seven year averaging process (“smoothing”) to determine the
fiscal year-end actuarial value of assets. Under this methodology, only one-seventh of any fiscal year’s investment gain or loss is reflected in that
year’s results. The remaining six-sevenths are rolled forward and reflected in the results over the next succeeding six fiscal years. So, although only
one-seventh of the -0.79% return that the CORP experienced in FY’12 is reflected in this fiscal year’s results, those results also reflect one-seventh
portions of the -7.05% and -17.99% returns that the Plan experienced during FY’08 and FY’09 respectively. Because the remainder of the FY’08,
FY’09 and FY’12 investment losses will be factored into the CORP’s funding ratios over the next several fiscal years, the forecast is that the Plan’s
funding ratio will continue to deteriorate, unless this trend is offset by several consecutive years of much better-than-expected rates of return and/
or a significant infusion of additional revenues from sources other than member and employer contributions.
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How to move the Plan back to an annual pattern of steadily improving funding ratios remains the principal challenge facing the PSPRS System and
its Board of Trustees. Although the System has no control or influence over the performance of the U.S. and global financial markets and the world
economies, the Board has taken the initiative to fully diversify the System’s financial market exposures to reduce overall risk and volatility. Yet, de-spite
this, the CORP’s actual FY’12 investment return of -0.79% was 3.68% (368 basis points) less than the Plan’s FY’12 benchmark return of 2.89%.
In response, and understanding that relative underperformance can and should be addressed, the Board, in conjunction with the System’s staff and
investment consultants, has taken steps to assure that this problem is remedied (See FY’12 Investment Results below) going forward.
The FY’08, FY’09 and FY’12 investment losses have taken, and will continue to take, their toll on the financial status of the CORP. However, it should
be noted that the legal challenges to the 2011 statutory changes relating to the formula for increasing benefits after retirement (i.e., the Plan’s COLA
formula), would, if successful, further undermine the Plan’s finding status. Currently, there are four legal challenges to the COLA changes pending in
the state courts. The Board, through its attorney, is defending the legislative changes and has directed the System’s staff to approach the Governor’s
Office, the State Attorney General and Legislative leadership regarding intervening directly in these lawsuits to resist these challenges.
Before the changes made by SB 1609, the CORP statutes required that in any year in which the Plan generated an investment return in excess of 9%,
one-half of any return over 9% had to be diverted into the CORP’s Reserve for Future Benefit Increases (“The Reserve”). These Reserve assets were
then used to finance life-time post-retirement adjustments payable to the Plan’s eligible beneficiaries. However, whenever assets were allocated to
the Reserve, those same assets were denied to the underfunded Plan and were not taken into account for funding ratio and employer contribution
rate calculations. If these statutory provisions had not been changed (i.e., SB 1609 specifically prohibited any new in-flows of investment return
assets into the Plan’s Reserve, effective May 31, 2011), $49.8 million of FY’11 investment return would have been diverted to the Plan’s Reserve.
That would have worsened the underfunded status of the Plan as of June 30, 2011. If the Arizona courts overturn the pension reform bill’s COLA
changes, the System will have to revive and restore the old mechanism which will have adverse consequences for the financial status of the Plan.
Employer Contribution Rates
Any change in the CORP’s June 30th fiscal year-end funding ratio impacts the employer contribution rate as of the following July 1st. For example,
the Plan’s funding ratio decline for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2012 (FY’12) will increase the CORP employers’ contribution rates as of July 1,
2013 (the start of employer FY’14). The CORP aggregate employer contribution rate will total 13.68%, consisting of a 7.5% “normal cost” compo-nent
(to cover the cost of future service to be performed by the covered group) and a 6.18% component for the amortization of the unfunded actu-arial
accrued liability (associated with service performed in the past).
As the Plan’s funding ratio has eroded, the employer contribution requirements have been rising in large year-over-year increments. The employer
aggregate rate crested at 8.65% of payroll in employer FY’09. For the next two years, the aggregate rate remained relatively stable. But based on
the Plan’s FY’10 and FY’11 results, the aggregate employer rate began to increase again, rising to 9.5% in employer FY’12 and 11.31% in FY’13.
Given the further erosion in the Plan’s funding status as of the end of FY’12, the aggregate employer rate is scheduled to increase to 13.68% of
payroll during employer FY’14. That represents a 2.37% of payroll increase over the current employer FY’13 aggregate rate. This increase in the
employer rate reflects the same combination of factors that have contributed to the funding ratio erosion, including the performance of the finan-cial
markets and the actuarial assumption revisions adopted by the Board, based on recommendations from the System’s actuaries. With further
erosion in the Plan’s funding status expected to occur over the next several years, the forecast is that the employer contribution rates will continue
to increase unless the Plan gains from several years of far better than expected investment returns and/or significant infusions of additional reve-nue
from sources other than member and employer contribution rates.
If the current legal challenges to the COLA changes made by SB 1609 are successful, the financial condition of the underfunded CORP will deterio-rate
significantly.
FY’12 Investment Results
As indicated above, the FY’12 CORP return of -0.79% was 368 basis points less than the 2.89% benchmark return for the Plan. The principal factors
contributing to the 368 basis points of underperformance were as follows: First, the FY’12 write down in the value of the legacy residential real
estate accounted for 161 basis points of the underperformance. Second, a market timing decision by staff to delay moving U.S. equity assets from
BNY Mellon Bank to State Street Global Advisors (at a time when the equity market was rising) cost an additional 66 basis points. Third, the use of an
inappropriate index for the Credit Opportunity asset class accounted for an additional 64 basis points. (The use of an index inappropriate for the asset
class had the effect of inflating the benchmark return and giving the appearance of underperformance.) Finally, the failure of the active portfolio
managers to add value in the U.S. equity asset class accounted for an additional 14 basis points of underperformance. Steps have been, and will
continue to be, taken to address the causes of the FY’12 underperformance relative to the benchmark. First, barring some new shock to the housing
market in the U.S. Southwest, there should be no further write downs in the values of the legacy residential real estate; indeed, property values have
at last begun to rise, creating opportunities to liquidate some of those properties at a gain. Second, all the U.S. equity indexed assets have been
moved to State Street Global Advisors and are fully invested. Third, as part of the new asset allocation approved in June, the Credit Opportunities
asset class now has an appropriate benchmark assigned to it. Finally, the U.S. equity asset class active portfolio manager investment.
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Because of the COLA changes made by the pension reform bill in 2011, there were no adjustments made to the benefits of CORP beneficiaries in July
of 2012, as used to be required by law. Having used the $22.0 million CORP Reserve asset balance as of June 30, 2011 to finance a 3.43% permanent
life-time increase in benefits for the Plan’s eligible beneficiaries that year, the Reserve balance thereafter has been zero. A new statutory post-retirement
adjustment formula will become effective on July 1, 2013; that new formula is expected to provide periodic (but not annual) adjustments
to post-retirement benefits in the future. If a robust rate of increase in the value of residential real estate in the U.S. southwest enables PSPRS to sell
the legacy real estate from the past at significant gains, that could result in some of those gains being used to fund post retirement adjustments for
eligible beneficiaries, rather than being used to offset some of the funding ratio deterioration that resulted from the write down in the values of those
same properties in past years.
A Short Term Strategy to Improve the Plan’s Funding Status and Reduce the Rate of Growth in Employer Contributions
To improve the Plan’s funded status and reduce the rate of increase in employer contribution rates, the System must generate, on a consistent basis,
annual rates of return that meet or exceed the Plan’s return expectations. In pursuit of that goal, PSPRS has gone through a complete restructuring of
the way in which the System manages and invests its Plans’ assets with a view to dramatically increasing asset allocation diversification and diversifi-cation
within asset classes. In the process, the Plans’ former over-weight reliance on equities has declined considerably and so has the risk level. Nev-ertheless,
because its assets must be invested, the Plan remains exposed to the consequences of poorly performing financial markets, as was evident
in FY’08 and FY’09 and again in FY’12.
In the short-term, and while awaiting final court decisions in the lawsuits challenging the changes made by the pension reform bill, the Board of
Trustees has directed the System’s staff to urge the CORP and other constituent organizations and the employer groups to come forward with legisla-tive
proposals to add additional sources of revenue to supplement the revenue derived from contributions and investment return. This seems to be
the only means available in the short term to improve the Plan’s funding status and reduce the rate of growth in employer contribution rates.
Conclusion
As members of the PSPRS Board of Trustees, we intend to continue our efforts to assure the long-term financial integrity of the System and its Plans
and to faithfully serve the interests of the Plan’s participants and beneficiaries.
We appreciate having the opportunity to serve the State of Arizona, its political subdivisions and the CORP’s members and we look forward to con-tinuing
to serve as Trustees for this System.
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November 20 , 2012
The Members of the Board of Trustees
Public Safety Personnel Retirement System (PSPRS)
3010 E. Camelback Road, Suite 200
Phoenix, Arizona 85016
Members:
Here is the Twenty-sixth Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) of the operations and financial condition of the Arizona Corrections Officer
Retirement Plan (CORP). This report is for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2012. The Plan is a uniform statewide retirement system that provides retire-ment,
disability and survivor benefits, post-retirement adjustments and health insurance premium subsidies for state, county and local corrections
officers, dispatchers and probation, surveillance and juvenile detention officers.
Arizona Revised Statutes Title 38 requires the Board of Trustees to transmit to the Governor and the Legislature this annual report within six months
of the close of each fiscal year. Incorporated in this Report are the audited financial statements, management’s discussion and analysis, and other
financial data from the June 30, 2012 report of Heinfeld, Meech & Co. P.C., Certified Public Accountants and auditors for the System. Also included
are the actuarial certi­fication
statement and the actuarial balance sheet from the June 30, 2012 actuarial valuation prepared by the System's actu-ary,
Gabriel, Roeder, Smith & Co. (GRS).
Financial Information Reporting
The primary responsibility for the integrity and objectivity of the financial statements and related financial data rests with the management of the
System. The financial statements were prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles appropriate for government-sponsored
defined benefit pension plans. Management believes that all other financial information included in this annual report is consistent with
those financial statements.
It is the System's policy to have and maintain an effective system of accounting controls. We believe our controls are adequate to provide reasonable
assurance that assets are safeguarded against loss or unauthorized use and to produce the records necessary for the preparation of financial informa-tion.
There are limits inherent in all systems of internal controls based on the recognition that the costs of such systems should be related to the
benefits to be derived. Management believes the System's controls provide this appropriate balance.
The System uses the accrual basis of accounting for both revenues and expenses. Contributions to the System are based on principles of level-cost
financing with current service financed as a level percent of payroll on a current basis and prior service amortized as a level percent of payroll over a
period of at least twenty but not more than thirty years.
Revenues
Revenues for the Plan are derived from three sources: member contributions, employer contributions, and realized and unrealized returns on the
invested assets of the Plan. As shown by the Schedule of Revenues by Source included in the Statistical Section later in this report, the Plan had an
investment loss of $10.3 million this fiscal year. That was offset by revenue from member contributions of $52.0 million, and direct employer
contributions (including Alternative Contributions) of $59.1 million. Please refer to the Statistical Section for a ten-year history of revenues and ex-penses.
PUBLIC SAFETY PERSONNEL RETIREMENT SYSTEM
Brian P. Tobin, Chairman CORRECTIONS OFFICER RETIREMENT PLAN
Gregory Ferguson, Vice Chair ELECTED OFFICIALS' RETIREMENT PLAN
Jeff Allen McHenry, Trustee 3010 East Camelback Road, Suite 200
Richard J. Petrenka, Trustee Phoenix, Arizona 85016-4416 James M. Hacking
Randie A. Stein, Trustee www.psprs.com Administrator
Lauren Kingry, Trustee TELEPHONE: (602) 255-5575 Ryan Parham Jared A. Smout
William C. Davis, Trustee FAX: (602) 255-5572 Chief Investment Officer Deputy Administrator
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Administrative and Investment Expenses
The CORP’s FY’12 administrative and investment-related expenses totaled $7.2 million, up from the $5.4 million during the prior year. Administra-tive
and investment expenses were approximately 56 basis points of the total assets managed. This is reasonable when compared with other public
retirement systems. A dedicated staff and constantly improving internal technology and expertise has enabled management to keep costs reason-able
even though we are having to accommodate increased service needs due to increasing numbers of participants and beneficiaries and the desire
to provide consistent support to the CORP and PSPRS networks of local boards that have important administrative functions to perform.
Investments
The total rate of return on the CORP assets for the fiscal year was -0.79% on a net of fees basis. This return was well below the System’s 8.0% actuar-ial
assumed rate of return; it was also below the Plan’s benchmark return of 2.89% for the fiscal year. The Investment Section of this Report contains,
among other things, graphs depicting the Plan’s performance, a detailed summary of the investment portfolio, and commissions paid to investment
professionals who provide services to the System. All Plan investments were held in trust by BNY Mellon, the System’s custodian bank.
Enacted Legislation
During FY’12, the State Legislature approved, and the Governor signed, five bills that were of significance. The first was HB2409 which authorizes
service credit purchases via payroll deduction. The second was HB2571, which was the Governor’s Personnel Reform initiative and which will make
the System’s agency staff subject to the State’s Department of Administration; however, it will have little, if any, substantive effect on the staff. The
third bill was SB1115 which eliminated the investment relationship contract warranty requirements that related to illegal immigration and invest-ments
in terrorist-supporting nations. The final bill was SB1116 which made many administrative, technical and clarifying changes to the PSPRS,
CORP and EORP statutes. These changes included authorization for the use of “swaps” in investment transactions.
Actuarial and Funding Information
Funding a retirement system on a sound actuarial reserve basis involves the accumula­tion
of substantial reserves to guarantee the payment of
promised benefits. These reserves are invested and the rate of investment earnings, over time, is a major factor in determining the employer contri-bution
requirement to meet the calculated level cost of the Plan.
The CORP is funded by a statutory participant contribution rate of 8.41% of gross payroll for those participants to whom ordinary disability benefit
protection was extended in FY’08 and a contribution rate of 7.96 % for all other participants in the Plan. The Plan’s additional funding comes from
the realized and unrealized returns on the invested assets of the Plan and from the employer contribution (expressed as a level percent of gross pay-roll)
that is reset annually, depending on the results of the Plan’s actuarial valuation.
The most commonly used measure of a retirement system’s funding progress is the ratio of the actuarial value of assets to actuarial accrued liability,
often referred to as the "percent funded." The percent funded for the CORP had been declining for six out of the last seven years through FY’07. Fol-lowing
modest improvement in FY’08, the funding ratio started to deteriorate again in FY’09; this trend continued right through FY’12. The primary
factor responsible for this negative trend has been the poor performance of the U.S. and global financial markets in FY’08, FY’09 and again in FY’12;
that poor performance yielded negative rates of return for the PSPRS-administered Plans. At June 30, 2012, the CORP’s funding ratio was only 67.8.
Given the System’s seven year averaging of investment results (actuarial “smoothing”), much of the effect of the FY’08, FY’09 and FY’12 negative
rates of return is yet to be reflected in the funding ratio of the Plan; therefore, the expectation is that the funding ratio will deteriorate further in the
future.
While each employer has a different contribution rate, depending on the liability for its group of participating employees, the current aggregate rate
for the contributing employers is 11.31%. The aggregate rate that will take effect on July 1, 2013 based on the CORP’s FY’12 results will be 13.68%.
Further decline in the Plan’s funding ratio will cause employer rates to rise even further in the future.
Post Retirement Benefit Increases
State statutes long provided for an annual benefit increase for CORP retirees (or their survivors) two years after retirement, regardless of age, or
when the retiree (or survivor) attained age 55 and had been retired for a year. These increases were limited to four percent of the benefit being paid
at the end of the prior fiscal year. A benefit increase schedule demonstrating the effect of these provisions can be found in the Statistical Section of
this CAFR.
These benefit adjustments were fully funded on a present value basis from the assets contained in the CORP’s Reserve for Future Benefit Increases. In
any year in which the Plan generated a return in excess of 9%, one-half of the return in excess of 9% was diverted to the Reserve and withheld from
the underlying Fund. For example, the Plan’s FY’10 13.47% return resulted in a $22.8 million flow of new assets into the Reserve. However, SB 1609
has changed all this.
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As of May 31, 2011, the new law prohibited any further transfers of assets to the CORP Reserve. The $22.0 million asset balance remaining in the
CORP Reserve as of June 30, 2011 was used to finance a 3.43% permanent life-time increase in benefits for all the Plan’s eligible beneficiaries. To
offset the liability associated with the benefit increase, the $22.0 million was withdrawn from the Reserve, leaving a remaining balance of zero. A
new post-retirement adjustment formula, that was included in SB 1609, will become effective on July 1, 2013; that new formula is expected to pro-vide
periodic (but not annual) post-retirement adjustments to benefits in the future.
Certificate of Achievement
The Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) awarded a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting to the System for the
CORP’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011. This was the eighteenth consecutive year that the
Plan has achieved this prestigious award. In order to be awarded a Certificate, a governmental entity must publish an easily readable and efficiently
organized CAFR. This report must satisfy both generally accepted accounting principles and applicable legal requirements.
We believe our FY’12 CAFR continues to meet the Certificate of Achievement Program’s requirements. We are, therefore, submitting it to the GFOA to
determine its eligibility for a certificate.
New Developments and Management Initiatives
During this past fiscal year, the PSPRS Board of Trustees continued its strategic initiative that has changed the way in which the Plan’s assets are
managed and invested. (See the Board of Trustees’ transmittal letter to the Governor that begins on page 7) In addition, there were other develop-ments
and initiatives that are worthy of note. These included the following:
 The quarterly, administrative budget tracking report was changed to a monthly report and revised to show not just fiscal-year-to-date budget
vs actual spending but also budget to fiscal year projected actual spending; the System’s Governance Manual was reviewed and amended and,
as part of that process, the Board of Trustees approved a revised Investment Policy.
 The administrative budget for FY’13, as approved by the Board, is 2.85% less than the FY’12 budget and 6.51% less than the actual level of
spending for FY’12.
 A search process was successfully completed to fill the position of Deputy Administrator, who reports to, and serves at the pleasure of, the Ad-ministrator;
a successful search process was also completed to fill the position of In-House Investment Counsel. The new counsel, who arrived
on staff in August, is expected to perform a significant portion of the investment-related legal work and will monitor and coordinate any in-vestment-
related legal work that is performed by external counsel.
 The new Call Center staff, who were hired during FY’11, were trained and are now functioning at such a level of proficiency that the call volume
to the processing units (i.e., the Retired and Active Member and Insurance Departments) was reduced by an estimated 60%.
 The System continued its comprehensive and multi-year effort to assure that the CORP and PSPRS local board networks are properly structured
and functioning so as to assure uniform administration of the statutory responsibilities delegated to them. Staff and other resources continue to
be dedicated to this initiative. Within the last twelve months, the System’s outreach efforts to provide training and education to local boards
were intensified through more on-site visits (22), group meetings/consultations via conference call, video conference and webinars (6), the
development of more training modules (including a Retirement Instruction Manual) and enhanced spreadsheets which were made accessible
through the PSPRS web site, continued publication of a monthly local board newsletter (6 issues), the implementation of a new “high three”
calculator for use by the local boards and the beginning of the development of a web site for use by the local boards so that they will be able to
send new beneficiary data electronically.
 The Internal Auditor/Compliance Officer developed and received approval for her annual audit plan and continued her monthly investments
compliance review. In addition, the Auditor has continued to approve capital calls made with respect to investment commitments approved
by the Board.
 At the IT back-up facility in Denver, all the servers were upgraded and are now all under warranty and a secondary Storage Area Network (SAN)
was set up to enable frequent replication of all System-critical servers; also, the Server Room at the Phoenix headquarters was upgraded, re-configured
and remodeled such that it now contains all servers, has a fire suppression system, and has redundant power and switching for all
critical systems and redundant cooling.
 The monthly beneficiary payroll process was successfully outsourced to Wells Fargo Bank and the Bank also assumed the responsibility for issu-ing
any printed benefit checks and the annual 1099’s.
 The IT Programming staff enhanced the Member’s Only web site to allow members to change demographic and other personal information on-line.
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New Initiatives for System FY’13
As we have moved through the first four months of the new fiscal year (FY’13), some new initiatives are underway and still others are planned.
These include:
 Keeping expenditures during the fiscal year in line with the FY’13 administrative budget that was approved by the Board and providing the
Board’s Operations, Governance and Audit Committee with monthly budget tracking reports;
 Completing the office renovation project for the purpose of adding more enclosed offices to accommodate our in-house Investment Depart-ment,
legal counsel, and management needs;
 Communicating with the Steptoe & Johnson attorneys to assure that they are successful in defending the interests of the Board and the System
in the legal actions that have been filed challenging the COLA changes contained in the 2011 pension reform bill, SB 1609;
 Assuring that the System’s GRS actuaries and staff maintain the detailed records that would be needed just in case any of SB 1609’s provisions
are successfully challenged in court and the System has to “undo” actions taken in conformance with the new law’s requirements;
 Continuing to add to the functionality (i.e., processing new retirements and new hire eligibility determinations online) of the CORP and PSPRS
local board web site to facilitate communication and allow direct data entry in a secured environment.
 IT initiatives include: 1) virtualizing the System’s Data Base server and setting up site-to-site replication for databases; 2) installing firewalls at
both the Phoenix Office and Denver facility; 3) creating a complete “test” environment that mirrors the System’s production environment; and
4) continuing to facilitate the development of electronic business processes and the phasing out of paper processes.
Summary
This CORP CAFR is a product of the collective efforts of the staff, under the direction of the System’s Board of Trustees. It is intended to provide com-plete
and reliable information that will facilitate the management decision process and it serves as a means for determining compliance with the
System’s governance and investment policies and legal requirements. Copies of this Report are provided to the Governor, State Auditor, Legislature
and all our member constituency groups. We hope all recipients of this Report find it informative and useful.
I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to the members of the Board of Trustees, the staff, the System’s advisors, and all others
who have contributed to the administrative operations of the System. I look forward to the challenge of moving the System forward with a program
of constructive and comprehensive change that will maintain high quality customer service and restore the PSPRS Plan to a state of financial sound-ness.
Respectfully submitted,
James M. Hacking
Administrator
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES
(AS OF JUNE 30, 2012)
Brian P. Tobin
Chairman Vice Chairman
Gregory Ferguson
Trustee Trustee
Randie A. Stein
Trustee
William C. Davis
Trustee
Jeff Allen McHenry Richard J. Petrenka
Trustee
Lauren Kingry
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EXECUTIVE STAFF AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHART
Administrator
Jared A. Smout
Deputy Administrator
James M. Hacking
Ryan Parham
Chief Investment Officer
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PROFESSIONAL ADVISORS
A schedule of Administrative Consultant fees may be found in the Financial Section. A schedule of Investment Consultant fees, Brokerage Commissions and Research
Expense may be found in the Investment Section.
Albourne America, LLC International Alternative Investment Consultant
Alliance Resource Consulting LLC Executive Recruitment
BNY Mellon Asset Servicing Independent Investment Advisor
Brazen Technology, Inc. IT Consultant
CB Richard Ellis Real Estate Consultant
Ernst & Young Real Estate Consultant
Fleetwood Technology Consulting IT Consultant
Gabriel Roeder Smith & Company Actuary
Heinfeld, Meech & Co. Independent Auditors
Highground, Inc Legislative Liaison
Kutak Rock LLP General Counsel
Light Stone Solutions, LLC Due Diligence
LRS Consulting LLC Local Board Training
NEPC, LLC Independent Investment Advisor
Org Portfolio Management LLC Real Estate Consultant
OSAM Inc. IT Consultant
Public Policy Partners Legislative Liaison
Stepstone Group LLC Alternative Investment Consultant
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Independent Auditor Report 18
Management Discussion and Analysis 20
Basic Financial Statements
Statement of Plan Net Assets 24
Statement of Changes in Plan Net Assets 25
Notes to the Financial Statements 26
Required Supplementary Information
Schedule of Funding Progress 39
Schedule of Employer Contributions 39
Notes to the Required Supplementary Information 41
Supporting Schedules Information
Schedule of Changes in Fund Balance 42
Schedule of Receipts and Disbursements 43
Schedule of Administrative Expenses 44
Schedule of Consultant Expenses 45
Other Supplementary Information
Statement of Changes in Assets and Liabilities - Agency Fund 46
Schedule of Funding Progress - Agency Fund 46
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INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ REPORT
Board of Trustees
Public Safety Personnel Retirement System
We have audited the accompanying Statement of Plan Net Assets of the Corrections Officer
Retirement Plan (CORP) as of and for the year ended June 30, 2012, and the related Statement
of Changes in Plan Net Assets for the year then ended. These basic financial statements are
the responsibility of CORP’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these
financial statements based on our audit. The comparative totals as of and for the year ended
June 30, 2011, presented in the basic financial statements are included for additional analysis
only. Our audit report dated December 9, 2011, expressed an unqualified opinion on those
statements; however, we have not performed any auditing procedures on this information since
the date of our report.
We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United
States of America and the standards applicable to financial audits contained in Government
Auditing Standards, issued by the Comptroller General of the United States. Those standards
require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the
financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test
basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit
also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe
that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects,
the net assets of the Corrections Officer Retirement Plan, as of June 30, 2012, and the changes
in net assets for the year then ended in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted
in the United States of America.
In accordance with Government Auditing Standards, we have also issued our report dated
November 20, 2012, on our consideration of the Corrections Officer Retirement Plan’s internal
control over financial reporting and on our tests of its compliance with certain provisions of laws,
regulations, contracts, and grant agreements and other matters. The purpose of that report is to
describe the scope of our testing of internal control over financial reporting and compliance and
the results of that testing, and not to provide an opinion on the internal control over financial
reporting or on compliance. That report is an integral part of an audit performed in accordance
with Government Auditing Standards and should be considered in assessing the results of our
audit.
TUCSON • PHOENIX • FLAGSTAFF • ALBUQUERQUE
www.heinfeldmeech.com
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Accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America require that the
management’s discussion and analysis on pages 20 through 23 and the Schedule of Funding
Progress and Schedule of Employer Contributions on pages 39 through 41 be presented to
supplement the basic financial statements. Such information, although not a part of the basic
financial statements, is required by Governmental Accounting Standards Board, who considers
it to be an essential part of financial reporting for placing the basic financial statements in an
appropriate operational, economic, or historical context. We have applied certain limited
procedures to the required supplementary information in accordance with auditing standards
generally accepted in the United States of America, which consisted of inquiries of management
about the methods of preparing the information and comparing the information for consistency
with management’s responses to our inquiries, the basic financial statements, and other
knowledge we obtained during our audit of the basic financial statements. We do not express an
opinion or provide any assurance on the information because the limited procedures do not
provide us with sufficient evidence to express an opinion or provide any assurance.
Our audit was conducted for the purpose of forming an opinion on the financial statements that
collectively comprise CORP’s financial statements. The Introductory Section, Supporting
Schedules Information, Other Supplementary Information, Investment Section, Actuarial Sec-tion
and Statistical Section are presented for purposes of additional analysis and are not a re-quired
part of the financial statements. The Supporting Schedules Information and Other
Supplementary Information, as listed in the table of contents under the Financial Section, have
been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audit of the financial statements and
certain additional procedures, including comparing and reconciling such information directly to
the underlying accounting and other records used to prepare the financial statements or to the
financial statements themselves, and other additional procedures in accordance with auditing
standards generally accepted in the United States of America. In our opinion, the information is
fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the financial statements as a whole. The
Introductory Section, Investment Section, Actuarial Section and Statistical Section have not
been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audit of the basic financial statements
and, accordingly, we express no opinion on them.
HEINFELD, MEECH & CO., P.C.
CPAs and Business Consultants
November 20, 2012
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CORP MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION & ANALYSIS
The Corrections Officer Retirement Plan’s discussion and analysis is designed to assist the reader in focusing on significant financial issues, provide an overview of the
Plan’s financial activity, identify changes in the Plan’s financial position and identify any issues or concerns.
Since the Management’s Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) is designed to focus on the current year’s activities, resulting changes and currently known facts, it is intended
to be read in conjunction with the Transmittal Letter, Financial Statements and Notes to the Financial Statements.
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
Key financial highlights for 2012 are as follows:
 The Corrections Officer Retirement Plan (CORP) had a total rate of return (net of fees) of –0.79% this year. Our total portfolio underperformed the target fund
benchmark by 368 basis points. This is a decline from the prior year’s return of 17.37%.
 As of the close of the fiscal year 2012, the Future Benefit Increase Reserve had been depleted.
 Retirement benefits paid totaled $87.98 million for the current year, compared to $76.36 million for the previous year. This represents a 15.22% increase from the
prior year.
OVERVIEW OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Using this Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR)
This annual report consists of a series of financial statements and notes to those financial statements. These statements are organized so the reader can understand the
Plan as an operating entity. The statements and notes then proceed to provide an increasingly detailed look at specific financial activities.
The Statement of Net Assets and The Statement of Changes in Net Assets
These statements include all assets and liabilities of the Plan using the accrual basis of accounting, which is similar to the accounting used by most private-sector com-panies.
These two statements report the Plan’s net assets and changes in them. Net assets are the difference between assets and liabilities, one way to measure the
financial health, or financial position. Over time, increases or decreases in the net assets are one indicator of the financial health of the Plan.
Notes to the Financial Statements
The notes provide additional information that is essential to a full understanding of the data provided in the financial statements. The notes can be found immediately
following The Statement of Net Assets and The Statement of Changes in Net Assets.
Required Supplementary Information
The basic financial statements are followed by a section of required supplemental information. This section includes the Schedule of Funding Progress and the Schedule
of Employer Contributions.
The Schedule of Funding Progress
Shows the ratio of assets as a percentage of the actuarial accrued liability (funding ratio) and the ratio of unfunded actuarial accrued liabilities to member payroll. The
trend in these two ratios provides information about the financial strength of the Plan. Improvement is indicated when the funding ratio is increasing and the ratio of
the unfunded actuarial accrued liability to payroll is decreasing.
The Schedule of Employer Contributions
Shows the Annual Required Contributions by fiscal year. The purpose of this schedule is to provide information about the required contributions of the employers and
the extent to which those contributions are being made. The information should assist users in understanding the changes and possible reasons for the changes in the
Plan’s funding status over time.
Supporting Schedules and Supplementary Information
The Supporting Schedules and Other Supplemental Information Section include the Supporting Schedule of Changes in Fund Balance Reserves, Supporting Schedule of
Administrative Expenses and Payments to Consultants, the Supplemental Schedule of Cash Receipts and Cash Disbursements and the Agency Fund Statement of
Changes in Assets and Liabilities (see Note 7). The total columns and information provided on these schedules carry forward to the applicable financial statement.
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Summary Comparative Statements of Plan Net Assets Analysis
The total plan net assets held in trust for benefits at June 30, 2012 were $1.29 billion, a 1.29% decrease from $1.30 billion at June 30, 2011. The decrease in net assets
is primarily due to unfavorable financial markets during the fiscal year. The decrease in cash or increase in receivables is attributable to normal fluctuations in invest-ment
income receivables during the year. CORP is fully deploying cash in other investments vehicles like exchange traded funds, equities, fixed income and private
equity. Detailed information regarding the Plan’s investment portfolio is included in the investment section of this report. The decrease in security lending collateral is
due to normal fluctuations in the lending program as well as an increase in exposure to other alternative investments. The investment of the collateral fluctuated in a
similar manner.
As of 06/30/2012 As of 06/30/2011 Change % Change
Cash and Short-Term Investments $ 26,714,223 $ 29,168,545 $ (2,454,322) (8.41)%
Total Receivables 13,222,192 5,620,985 7,601,207 135.23%
Total Investments 1,251,389,104 1,278,722,303 (27,333,199) (2.14)%
Securities Lending Collateral 25,984,058 90,201,160 (64,217,102) (71.19)%
Net Capital Assets 654,291 646,649 7,642 1.18%
Total Plan Assets 1,317,963,868 1,404,359,642 (86,395,774) (6.16)%
Accrued Accounts Payable 2,020,987 1,833,212 187,775 10.24%
Investment Purchases Payable 2,979,876 8,527,478 (5,547,602) (65.06)%
Securities Lending Collateral 25,984,058 90,201,160 (64,217,102) (71.19)%
Total Plan Liabilities 30,984,921 100,561,850 (69,576,929) (69.19)%
Net Assets $ 1,286,978,947 $ 1,303,797,792 $ (16,868,845) (1.29)%
SUMMARY COMPARATIVE STATEMENTS OF PLAN NET ASSETS
2012 2011 Change % Change
ADDITIONS
Total Contributions $ 109,020,723 $ 100,971,508 $ 8,049,215 7.97%
Net Investment Income (10,340,020) 193,212,289 (203,552,309) (105.35)%
Transfers and Service Purchases 368,484 241,548 126,936 52.55%
Total Additions (Reductions) 99,049,187 294,425,345 (195,376,158) (66.36)%
DEDUCTIONS
Benefits 87,977,793 76,359,270 11,618,523 15.22%
Service Transfers and Refunds 26,707,547 25,872,830 834,717 3.23%
Administrative Expenses 1,182,692 1,184,756 (2,064) (0.17)%
Total Deductions 115,868,032 103,416,856 12,451,176 12.04%
Net Increase (Decrease) (16,818,845) 191,008,489 (207,827,334) (108.81)%
Balance Beginning of Year - July 1 1,303,797,792 1,112,789,303 191,008,489 17.16%
Balance End of Year - June 30 $ 1,286,978,947 $ 1,303,797,792 $ (16,818,845) (1.29)%
SUMMARY COMPARATIVE STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN PLAN NET ASSETS
FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF THE PLAN
The following schedules present comparative summary financial statements of the System for FY2012 and FY2011. Following each schedule is a brief summary of the
significant changes noted in these schedules.
Summary Comparative Statements of Changes in Plan Net Assets Analysis
There was an increase in employer and employee contributions of $8.05 million in relation to 2011 due to an increase in average employer contribution rates from
8.57% in FY2011 to 9.50% in FY2012. For FY2012, CORP recognized a net investment loss of $10.34 million which compares to a gain of $193.21 million in the previ-ous
year. This 105.35% decrease in income was due to the more negative returns in the financial markets during the fiscal year. Deductions from the CORP net assets
held in trust for benefits consist primarily of pension, disability, survivor benefits, member refunds and administrative expenses. For FY2012, these deductions totaled
$115.87 million, an increase of 12.04% from the $103.42 million paid during FY2011. The total benefit payments increase is due to a net increase in the number of
benefit recipients. Details of these changes can be found in the Actuarial Section of this report. Service Transfers and Refunds increased 3.23% million over the prior
year. Refunds represent a return of contributions held on account when a member leaves employment. This increase is due to current economic conditions that have
led to layoffs and reduction of many governmental services. Administrative expenses were less due to a decrease in legal and professional services from the prior year.
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INVESTMENT ACTIVITIES
During FY 2007, the Board of Trustees adopted a more diversified asset allocation policy and began an asset management restructuring that has been deployed over the
past four years. As illustration, at the end of FY07, 72.8% of the entire investment portfolio was invested in equities versus 33.4% at the end of FY12. Fixed income
had remained about 19% of the entire portfolio prior to being reduced to 13.8% in FY2012. However, alternative investments have increased from 3.5% in FY07 to
50.7% in FY12.
At June 30, 2012, CORP held $427.61 million in equities. The FY 2012 rate of return for Total CORP equities was –6.19% versus a benchmark rate of return of –4.36%.
At June 30, 2012, CORP held $173.50 million in fixed income securities. The FY 2012 rate of return for CORP fixed income securities was 6.39% versus a benchmark rate
of return of 7.47%. The benchmarks for both equities and fixed income securities are representative of the returns that could be expected in a similar investing environ-ment.
More detailed information regarding the Plan’s investment portfolio can be found in the investment section of this report.
CORP earns additional income by lending investment securities to brokers. This was done on a pooled basis by our custodial banks, BNY Mellon. The brokers provide
collateral and generally use the borrowed securities to cover short trades and failed trades.
HISTORICAL TRENDS
19.23%
10.19% 14.13%
13.79%
8.61%
3.47%
9.43%
6.23%
12.71%
2.20%
U.S. Equity Non-U.S. Equity Private Equity
Fixed Income Credit Opportunities Absolute Return
GTAA Real Assets Real Estate
Short Term Inv
$0
$200
$400
$600
$800
$1,000
$1,200
$1,400
$1,600
$1,800
$2,000
$2,200
$2,400
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
106.9%
104.8%
96.4%
93.7%
84.6%
86.8%
82.6%
80.3%
73.0%
67.8% Assets Liabilities
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Accounting standards require that the “Statement of Plan Assets” reflect investment asset values at fair market value and include only benefits and refunds due to plan
members and beneficiaries and accrued investment and administrative expenses as of the reporting date. Information regarding the actuarial funding status of the
plan is provided in the “Schedule of Funding Progress.” The asset value stated in the “Schedule of Funding Progress” is the actuarial value of assets as determined by
calculating the ratio of the market value to book value of assets and the actuarial gains/losses smoothed over a seven year period. Actuarial valuations of the CORP
assets and benefit obligations for the retirement plan are performed an nually. The most recent actuarial valuation available is as of June 30, 2012.
At June 30, 2012, the total funded status of the CORP decreased to 67.8% from 73.0% at FYE 2011. This decrease in funded status is related primarily to the seven year
smoothing period with only 1/7 of the investment gain from the FY2012 investment return being reflected in the calculation. The market value smoothing techniques
used in this valuation of the Plan recognize both past and present investment gains and losses. A more detailed discussion of the funding status can be found in the
Administrator’s Letter of Transmittal in the Introductory Section of this report.
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
This report is designed to provide a general overview of the Corrections Officer Retirement Plan’s finances. Questions concerning any of the information provided in this
report or requests for additional financial information should be addressed to: Corrections Officer Retirement Plan, 3010 E. Camelback Road, Suite 200, Phoenix, AZ
85016.
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STATEMENT OF PLAN NET ASSETS
JUNE 30, 2012 WITH COMPARATIVE TOTALS FOR 2011
JUNE 30, 2012 JUNE 30, 2011
ASSETS
Cash and Short-Term Investments $ 26,714,223 $ 29,168,545
RECEIVABLES
Member Contributions 724,497 1,870,692
Employer Contributions 871,209 1,910,540
Interest and Dividends 1,187,705 1,479,277
Investment Sales 10,429,796 338,773
Other 8,985 21,703
Total Receivables 13,222,192 5,620,985
INVESTMENTS AT FAIR VALUE (NOTES 2 AND 3)
U.S. Equity 246,770,817 263,259,903
Non U.S. Equity 180,837,395 195,922,503
GTAA 121,141,513 117,653,995
Real Estate 163,242,873 138,132,088
Total Investments 1,251,389,104 1,278,722,303
Securities Lending Collateral 25,984,058 90,201,160
CAPITAL ASSETS (NOTE 4)
Land 86,588 86,588
Building 648,990 628,951
Funiture, Fixtures & Equipment 188,615 164,097
Total Capital Assets 924,193 879,636
Accumulated Depreciation (269,902) (232,987)
Net Capital Assets 654,291 646,649
TOTAL PLAN ASSETS 1,317,963,868 1,404,359,642
LIABILITIES
Accrued Accounts Payable 2,020,987 1,833,212
Investment Purchases Payable 2,979,876 8,527,478
Securities Lending Collateral 25,984,058 90,201,160
Total Plan Liabilities 30,984,921 100,561,850
NET ASSETS HELD IN TRUST FOR PENSION BENEFITS 1,286,978,947 1,303,797,792
NET ASSET RESERVES
Refundable Members’ Reserve 373,835,801 358,456,820
Employers’ Reserve 913,143,146 945,340,972
Future Benefit Increase Reserve - -
Total Net Asset Reserves 1,286,978,947 $ 1,303,797,792
Fixed Income 173,504,736 241,229,832
Credit Opportunities 110,507,909 115,942,329
Private Equity 130,833,258 103,237,702
Real Assets 79,934,282 69,958,118
Absolute Return 44,616,321 33,385,833
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN PLAN NET ASSETS
FISCAL YEAR ENDING 2012 WITH COMPARATIVE TOTALS FOR 2011
2012 2011
ADDITIONS
Contributions
Members’ Contributions (NOTES 2,5) $ 51,967,894 $ 50,891,168
Employers’ Contributions (NOTES 2,5) 56,056,555 49,303,602
Members’ Service Purchase 850,866 776,738
Total Contributions 109,020,723 100,971,508
Investment Income
From Investment Income
Net Appreciation (Depreciation) in Fair Value of Investments (NOTES 2,3) (21,976,530) 176,936,936
Interest 2,759,487 2,839,921
Dividends 9,802,634 11,707,978
Other Income 4,790,299 5,340,305
From Securities Lending Activities
88,481 410,126
249,950 282,080
(50,486) (103,763)
287,945 588,443
Total Investment Income (Loss) (4,336,165) 197,413,583
Less Investment Expense (6,003,855) (4,201,294)
Net Investment Income (Loss) (10,340,020) 193,212,289
Transfers Into System 368,484 241,548
Total Additions (Reductions) 99,049,187 294,425,345
DEDUCTIONS
Pension Benefits (NOTE 2) 85,684,902 75,021,222
DROP Benefits (NOTE 2) 2,292,891 1,338,048
Refunds To Terminated Members (NOTE 2) 25,743,514 24,927,660
Administrative Expenses 1,182,692 1,184,756
Transfers Out of System 964,033 945,170
Total Deductions 115,868,032 103,416,856
NET INCREASE (DECREASE) (16,818,845) 191,008,489
NET ASSETS HELD IN TRUST FOR PENSION BENEFITS
Beginning of Year, July 1 1,303,797,792 1,112,789,303
End of Year, June 30 $ 1,286,978,947 $ 1,303,797,792
Securities Lending Activities (NOTE 3)
Securities Lending Income
Borrower Rebates
Agents Share of Income
Net Securities Lending Income
Alternate Employer Contributions 145,408 -
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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CORP NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NOTE 1: PLAN DESCRIPTION
ORGANIZATION
The Corrections Officer Retirement Plan (CORP), a pension trust fund of the State of Arizona, is an agent multiple employer public employee retirement plan established
by Title 38, Chapter 5, Article 6 of the Arizona Revised Statutes, to provide benefits for prison and jail employees of certain state, county and local governments. The
Board of Trustees (formerly Fund Manager) of the Public Safety Personnel Ret irement System (PSPRS) and 26 local boards administer the CORP Plan.
Effective August 6, 1999, it became the Governor’s responsibility to appoint all members of the Board of Trustees. Effective April 28, 2010, SB 1006 was passed that
changed the name of the Fund Manager to Board of Trustees and expanded the size of the Board from five to seven members. SB 1006 also increased the term from
three to five years. There will be a transitional period during which the terms of office may vary. The Board of Trustees is responsible for the investment of the Plan’s
assets, setting employer contribution rates in accordance with an actuarial study, adopting a budget, hiring personnel to administer the Plan, setting up records, setting
up accounts for each member, paying benefits and the general protection and administration of the System. Substantial investment experience is required for the
member of the Board that represents the state as an employer and the two public members of the Board.
Each eligible group participating in the Plan has a five-member local board. In general, each member serves a fixed four-year term. Each local board is responsible for
determining eligibility for membership, service credits, eligibility for benefits, the timing of benefit payments, and the amount of benefits for its eligible group of em- ployees.
The various governing bodies pay all costs associated with the administration of the local boards.
The addition or deletion of eligible groups does not require the approval of the other participating employers. The Board of Trustees approves new eligible groups for
participation. The CORP is reported as a component unit of the State of Arizona.
The Board of Trustees of the CORP is also responsible for the investment and general administration of two other statewide retirement plans-the Elected Officials’ Re-tirement
Plan and the Public Safety Personnel Retirement System. The investments and expenses of these plans were held and accounted for separately from those of
the CORP until September 1, 2008. Arizona Revised Statutes Section 38-848 was amended by Laws 2008, Ch. 286, § 22 to authorize the Board of Trustees to commingle
the assets of the fund and the assets of all other plans entrusted to its management. Accordingly, the assets of these plans have been unitized but all receipts and
earnings are credited and charges of payments are made to the appropriate employer, system or plan.
Since none of the plans have the authority to impose their will on any of the other plans, each plan is reported as its own stand-alone government.
At June 30, 2012 and 2011, the number of participating local government employer groups was:
Any county or city in the State of Arizona may elect to have its eligible employees (generally, prison or jail personnel who have direct inmate contact) covered by CORP.
At June 30, 2012 and 2011, statewide CORP membership consisted of::
CORP provides retirement benefits as well as death and disability benefits. Generally, all benefits vest after five years of credited service.
A summary of benefit and plan provisions follows:
GROUP 2012 2011
County AOC 15 15
Cities 1 1
State Agencies 3 3
Total Employers 40 40
Dispatchers 8 8
Detention 13 13
RETIREMENT PLAN
MEMBERSHIP TYPE 2012 2011 2012 2011
Retirees 3,476 3,256 1,934 1,795
Terminated Vested 1,101 1,300 - -
Current Vested 4,586 4,483 - -
Current Non-Vested 10,405 10,082 - -
Total Members 19,568 19,121 1,934 1,795
INSURANCE SUBSIDY
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SUMMARY OF BENEFITS
PURPOSE (A.R.S. § 38-900.01b)
To provide a uniform, consistent and equitable statewide program for those eligible corrections officers as defined by the Plan.
AVERAGE MONTHLY BENEFIT
Employees who became a member of the Plan on or before December 31, 2011, an average of your highest thirty-six (36) consecutive months of salary within the last
ten (10) years (i.e., 120 months) of service. A.R.S. § 38-881(7).
Employees who become a member of the Plan on or after January 1, 2012, an average of your highest sixty (60) consecutive months of salary within the last ten (10)
years (i.e., 120 months) of service.
Salary includes base wages, shift and military differential pay, holiday and overtime pay that is paid a member for personal services rendered in a designated position to
a participating employer on a regular monthly, semi-monthly or biweekly payroll basis. For the purposes of computing retirement benefits, “base salary” does not
include any extra monies, including overtime pay, shift differential pay, holiday pay, fringe benefit pay (such as uniform allowance, cell phone or mileage reimburse-ment)
and similar extra payments. A.R.S. § 38-881(41).
BENEFIT INCREASE / COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT (COLA)
A retired member or survivor of a retired member may receive an increase (COLA) if monies are available (See A.R.S. § 38-905). However, effective July 1, 2013 (A.R.S. §
38-905.02) and each July 1 thereafter, as long as there are no monies left to pay under the old COLA structure (See A.R.S. § 38-905), a COLA will be issued as long as the
following criteria have been met:
 Retired members who became a member on or before December 31, 2011, or the survivor of a retired member, was receiving benefits on or before July 31 of the two
previous years, OR was 55 or older on July 1 of the current year and receiving benefits on or before July 31 of the previous year.
 Retired members who became a member on or after January 1, 2012, or the survivor of a retired member, was 55 or older on July 1 of the current year and is receiv-ing
benefits, OR the retired member was under 55 on July 1 of the current year, was receiving an accidental disability retirement benefit and was receiving benefits
on or before July 31 of the two previous years, OR a survivor was under 55 on July 1 of the current year, is the survivor of a member who was killed in the line of duty
and was receiving benefits on or before July 31 of the two previous years.
The increase will be calculated based on (if there are insufficient earnings to cover the maximum increases, the percentage increase is limited to the earnings available):
 If the ratio of the actuarial value of assets to liabilities is 60-64% and the total return is more than 10.5% for the prior fiscal year, 2% maximum increase to all eligible
retirees and survivors.
 If the ratio of the actuarial value of assets to liabilities is 65-69% and the total return is more than 10.5% for the prior fiscal year, 2.5% maximum increase to all eligi-ble
retirees and survivors.
 If the ratio of the actuarial value of assets to liabilities is 70-74% and the total return is more than 10.5% for the prior fiscal year, 3% maximum increase to all eligible
retirees and survivors.
 If the ratio of the actuarial value of assets to liabilities is 75-79% and the total return is more than 10.5% for the prior fiscal year, 3.5% maximum increase to all eligi-ble
retirees and survivor.
 If the ratio of the actuarial value of assets to liabilities is 80% or more and the total return is more than 10.5% for the prior fiscal year, 4% maximum increase to all
eligible retirees and survivors
From and after December 31, 2015, legislature may enact permanent one-time benefit increases after an analysis of the effect of the increase on the Plan by the Joint
Legislative Budget Committee (JLBC). A.R.S. § 38-905.03.
CONTRIBUTIONS
From July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013, all non-dispatchers shall contribute 8.41% and all full-time dispatchers shall contribute 7.96% of salary to the Plan on a pre-tax
basis by payroll deduction. The contribution rate for members will change each fiscal year. A.R.S. § 38-891(H).
CREDITED SERVICE
Service in a designated position for which member contributions have been made to the Plan, or transferred to the Plan from another retirement system for public
employees of this state. A.R.S. § 38-881(11).
DEATH BENEFITS - ACTIVE MEMBER
Spouse’s Pension. The surviving spouse of an active member will receive a Spouse’s Pension each month for lifetime. The Spouse’s Pension is 40% of the member's
average monthly salary. If the member was killed in the line of duty, the spouse will receive 100% of the member’s average monthly benefit compensation.
A.R.S. § 38-888, OR
Guardian Benefit. If there is no surviving spouse, or the pension of the surviving spouse is terminated, and there is at least one (1) eligible child, a Guardian Benefit of
40% (based on the member's average monthly salary) will be paid to the guardian of the eligible child(ren) until the child turns 18, or until the age of 23 if the attend-ing
full-time school between the ages of 18 and 23. If a Guardian Benefit is paid to a disabled child (the child’s disability occurred prior to the age of 23) and remains a
dependent of the guardian, the benefit is payable for the lifetime of the child. A.R.S. § 38-904(B), OR
Balance of Contributions. If there is no surviving spouse or eligible child(ren), the member's named beneficiary on file will receive two (2) times the member’s contribu-tions.
If the surviving beneficiary does not claim the benefit, the Local Board has the authority to pay the member’s nearest of kin, or estate. A.R.S. §§ 38-904(A and B).
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DEATH BENEFITS - INACTIVE MEMBER
Balance of Contributions. If the member was inactive, the member's named beneficiary on file will receive two (2) times the member’s contributions. If the surviving
beneficiary does not claim the benefit, the Local Board has the authority to pay the member’s nearest of kin, or estate. A.R.S. §§ 38-881(27) and 38-904(A).
DEATH BENEFITS - RETIRED MEMBER
Spouse’s Pension. If married for at least two (2) consecutive years at the time of the member’s death, the surviving spouse will receive a Spouse’s Pension each month
for lifetime based on 80% of the member's pension benefit. A.R.S. § 38-887, OR
Guardian Benefit. If there is no surviving spouse, or the pension of the surviving spouse is terminated, and there is at least one (1) eligible child, a Guardian Benefit of
80% (based on the member's pension) may be paid to the guardian of the surviving unmarried child(ren) until the child(ren) turns 18, or until the age of 23 if attending
full-time school between the ages of 18 and 23. If a Guardian Benefit is paid to a disabled child (the child’s disability occurred prior to the age of 23) and remains a
dependent of the guardian, the benefit is payable for the lifetime of the child. A.R.S. §§ 38-881(19) and 38-904(B), OR
Balance of Contributions. If there is no surviving spouse or eligible child(ren), the member's named beneficiary on file will receive the balance of the member's accumu-lated
contributions less the pension payments made to the member. If the surviving beneficiary does not claim the benefit, the Local Board has the authority to pay the
member’s nearest of kin, or estate. A.R.S. §§ 38-889 and 38-904(A).
ACCIDENTAL DISABILITY
A physical or mental condition which totally and permanently prevents an employee from performing a reasonable range of duties within the employee's department,
that was incurred in the performance of the employee's duties and was the result of either physical contact with inmates, or responding to a confrontational situation
with inmates, or a job-related motor vehicle accident, and was not the result of a physical or mental condition that existed or occurred before the employee’s date of
membership in the Plan. A.R.S. § 38-881(1).
Eligibility for an accidental disability will be determined by the Local Board upon an independent medical examination. For members with a membership date on or
before December 31, 2011, the monthly benefit is 50% of the member's average monthly compensation. (There is no credited service requirement.) For members with
a membership date on or after January 1, 2012 with less than 25 years of credited service, the monthly benefit is 50% of the member's average monthly compensation.
For members with 25 or more years of credited service, the monthly benefit is 62.5% of the member's average monthly compensation. The Local Board may require
periodic medical re-evaluations until the member reaches age 62. Accidental disability terminates if the Local Board finds the retired member no longer meets the
requirements for the disability benefit. A.R.S. § 38-886.
TOTAL AND PERMANENT (CATASTROPHIC) DISABILITY
A physical or mental condition which totally and permanently prevents a member from engaging in any gainful employment, that is in the direct and proximate result
of the member's performance of the employee’s duties and is not the result of a physical or mental condition or injury that existed or occurred before the member's
date of membership in the Plan. A.R.S. § 38-881(44).
Eligibility for a total and permanent disability will be determined by the Local Board upon an independent medical examination. For members with a membership date
on or before December 31, 2011, the monthly benefit is 50% of the member's average monthly compensation. (There is no credited service requirement.) For mem-bers
with a membership date on or after January 1, 2012 with less than 25 years of credited service, the monthly benefit is 50% of the member's average monthly
compensation. For members with 25 or more years of credited service, the monthly benefit is 62.5% of the member's average monthly compensation. The Local Board
may require periodic medical re-evaluations until the member reaches age 62. The total and permanent disability terminates if the Local Board finds the retired mem-ber
no longer meets the requirements for the disability benefit. A.R.S. § 38-886.
ORDINARY DISABILITY
A physical condition which totally and permanently prevents an employee from performing a reasonable range of duties within the employee’s department, or a men-tal
condition that totally and permanently prevents the employee from engaging in any substantial gainful activity, and was not the result of a condition that existed or
occurred before the employee’s date of membership in the Plan. Dispatchers disabled on/after September 21, 2006 and non dispatchers disabled on/after September
26, 2008 may qualify for an ordinary disability. A.R.S. §§ 38-881(30) and 38-886.01.
Eligibility for an ordinary disability will be determined by the Local Board upon an independent medical examination. The monthly benefit is a percentage of normal
retirement based on the employee’s years of credited service divided by twenty (20) for membership on or before December 31, 2011 (except a full-time dispatcher, the
service requirement is 25 years), or twenty-five (25) for membership on or after January 1, 2012. The Local Board may require periodic medical re-evaluations until the
member reaches age 62. Ordinary disability terminates if the Local Board finds the retired member no longer meets the requirements for the disability benefit. A.R.S. §
38-886.01.
DIVORCE / DOMESTIC RELATIONS ORDER
If the member has been involved in a divorce(s), please provide the CORP with a complete copy of the Divorce Decree(s) and any attachments or exhibits if referenced in
the Decree(s). Upon receipt, additional correspondence will be provided to the parties. If the retirement account is required to be split, a Domestic Relations Order
(DRO) will need to be prepared. To ensure that the language in the DRO is acceptable, it is recommended to provide the CORP with a draft copy of the DRO for review
and approval prior to submitting it to the court. A.R.S. § 38-910.
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REVERSE DEFERRED RETIREMENT OPTION PLAN (REVERSE DROP)
Beginning July 1, 2006 and through June 30, 2016, the CORP shall offer the Reverse Deferred Retirement Option Plan (Reverse DROP) to members that are eligible for a
normal pension (based on service and age) applicable to a membership date that is either prior to, or after January 1, 2012 (who is not awarded an accidental, ordinary
or total and permanent disability pension). Under the Reverse DROP, the member must voluntarily and irrevocably elect to terminate employment and receive a nor-mal
retirement upon participation in the Reverse DROP. The Reverse DROP date is the first day of the month immediately following completion of required credited
service, or a date not more than sixty (60) consecutive months before the date the member elects to participate in the Reverse DROP, whichever is later.
The member’s pension will be calculated using the factors of credited service and average monthly benefit compensation in effect on the Reverse DROP Date. The lump
sum distribution is credited as though it accrued monthly from the Reverse DROP date to the date the member elected to participate in the Reverse DROP (plus interest
equal to the yield on a five (5) year Treasury note as of the first day of the month as published by the Federal Reserve Board).
Neither the member nor the employer is entitled to a refund of contributions made between the Reverse DROP date and the date the member elects to participate in
the Reverse DROP. A.R.S. § 38-885.01.
*If participating in Reverse DROP, the member’s service cannot be less than service required for normal retirement (based on service and age) applicable to a member-ship
date that is either prior to, or after January 1, 2012. In other words, service must be greater than 24/25, respectively, in order to receive a Reverse DROP benefit.
ELIGIBILITY
Designated positions for the following employers that elect to join the Plan are eligible to participate in the CORP if the employee’s customary employment is for at
least forty (40) hours per week, or as defined by statute. A.R.S. § 38-881(13):
 For a County: A county detention officer and non-uniformed employee’s of a sheriff's department whose primary duties require direct inmate contact.
 For the State Department of Corrections and the Department of Juvenile Correction: Specific positions are eligible to participate. Refer to the statute for specific
positions.
 For a City or Town, a City or Town Detention Officer.
 For an employer of an eligible group as defined in A.R.S. § 38-842, full-time dispatchers.
 For the judiciary, probation, surveillance, and juvenile detention officers and those positions designated by the Local Board.
 For the Department of Public Safety, state detention officers.
Dispatchers hired after November 24, 2009 must participate in the Arizona State Retirement System. A.R.S. § 38-902(C) .
HEALTH INSURANCE
Pursuant to A.R.S. §§ 38-906, 38-651.01 and 38-782, retirees and survivors under the Plan that elect group health insurance and/or accident insurance coverage
through the Arizona State Retirement System group plan (ASRS), the Arizona Department of Administration (ADOA) group plan, or a group plan through an employer
of the CORP, the Plan will pay up to the following Premium Benefit amount:
JOINDERS
Specific positions and employers may participate in the CORP if the governing body of the employer enters into a joinder agreement to bring such employees into the
CORP. The joinder agreement shall be in accordance with the provisions of this Plan. The transfer of the Arizona defined benefit state retirement System or Plan shall
be transferred within ninety days after the employer’s effective date. A.R.S. § 38-902.
REFUNDS
Employees who became a member on or before December 31, 2011, pursuant to A.R.S. § 38-884, upon termination of employment (for any reason other than death or
retirement) within 20 days after filing an application with the CORP, the member will receive a lump-sum payment of accumulated contributions (less any benefits paid
or any amounts owed to the Plan) - thus, forfeiting all membership rights and credited service in the Plan upon receipt of refund of contributions. If the member has
five or more years of credited service, an additional percentage of contributions will be refunded to the member according to the member’s years of service as stated
below:
5 to 5.9 years of service = 25% of additional member contributions.
6 to 6.9 years of service = 40% of additional member contributions.
7 to 7.9 years of service = 55% of additional member contributions.
8 to 8.9 years of service = 70% of additional member contributions.
9 to 9.9 years of service = 85% of additional member contributions.
10 or more years of service = 100% of member contributions plus 3% interest if left on deposit after 30 days.
SINGLE
Not Medicare Eligible Medicare Eligible All Not Medicare Eligible All Medicare Eligible One With Medicare
$150.00 $100.00 $260.00 $170.00 $215.00
FAMILY
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Employees who became a member on or after January 1, 2012, pursuant to A.R.S. § 38-884(E), upon termination of employment (for any reason other than death or
retirement) within twenty (20) days after filing an application with CORP, shall receive a lump-sum payment of ONLY their accumulated contributions (less any bene-fits
paid or any amounts owed to the Plan) - thus, forfeiting all membership rights and credited service in the Plan upon receipt of refund of contributions. The member
will NOT receive the additional percentage of contributions as stated on previous page.
Note: Arizona Revised Statutes do not allow a CORP member to borrow against your retirement account. A refund of your contributions can only be paid to you upon
termination of your employment with the CORP employer
REQUEST TO REMAIN IN CORP
The local board of the state department of corrections, or the department of juvenile corrections may specify a position within the department as a designated position
if the position is filled by an employee who has at least five (5) years of credited service under the Plan, is transferred to temporarily fill the position, provides a written
request to the local board (within 90 days of being transferred) to specify the position as a designated position. When the employee leaves the position, the position is
no longer a designated position. A.R.S. § 38-891(E). (Form C20)
The local board of the state department of corrections, or the department of juvenile corrections may specify a designated position within the department as a non-designated
position if the position is filled by an employee who has at least five years of credited service under the Arizona State Retirement System and who provides a
written request to the local board (within 90 days of being transferred) to specify the position as a non-designated position. When the employee leaves the position,
the position reverts to a designated position. A.R.S. § 38-891(F).
The local board of the judiciary may specify positions within the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) that require direct contact with and primarily provide training
or technical expertise to county probation, surveillance or juvenile detention officers as a designated position if the position is filled by an employee who is a member of
the Plan currently employed in a designated position as a probation, surveillance or juvenile detention officer that has at least five years of credited service under the
Plan. An employee who fills such a position shall make a written request to the local board to specify the position as a designated position within ninety days of accept-ing
the position. When the employee leaves the position, the position reverts to a non-designated position. A.R.S. § 38-891(G).
RETIREMENT ELIGIBILITY AND CALCULATION
Employees who became a member on or before December 31, 2011:
Normal Retirement. Pursuant to A.R.S. §§ 38-881 (7, 11, 27, 28, 41 and 43) and 38-885, retirement benefits will commence the first day of month following termination
of employment and based upon the following:
 20 years of credited service but less than 25 years of credited service, or 80 points (age plus credited service) if membership date is on/after 8/9/01: 50% of the mem-ber’s
average monthly salary plus 2% of member’s average monthly salary multiplied by each year of credited service over 20 (include fractional years).
 25 years of credited service for dispatchers, or 80 points (age plus credited service) if membership date is on/after 8/9/01: 50% of the member’s average monthly
salary plus 2.5% of member’s average monthly salary multiplied by each year of credited service over 20 (include fractional years). (12-years maximum so that the
benefit does not exceed the 80% of the average monthly salary)
 20 years of service but less than 20 years of credited service, or 80 points if membership date is on/after 8/9/01: Member’s average monthly salary multiplied by each
year of credited service (include fractional years) multiplied by 2.5%.
 80 points (age plus credited service) if membership date is PRIOR to 8/9/01: Member’s average monthly salary multiplied by each year of credited service (include
fractional years) multiplied by 2.5% (maximum 75% of average monthly salary).
 Age 62 with 10 years of service but less than 20 years of credited service: Member’s average monthly salary multiplied by each year of credited service (include frac-tional
years) multiplied by 2.5%.
Note: The maximum pension is capped at 80% of the average monthly salary (which a person would receive at 32 years of credited service).
Deferred Annuity. Inactive members (not making contributions to the Plan) that have at least ten (10) years of credited service may elect to receive a Deferred Annuity
at the age of sixty-two (62). This annuity is a lifetime monthly payment that is actuarially equivalent to the member’s accumulated contributions in the Plan plus an
equal amount paid by the employer. This annuity is not a retirement benefit and annuitants are not entitled to survivor benefits, benefit increases, or the group health
insurance subsidy. A.R.S. § 38-911(A).
Employees who became a member on or after January 1, 2012:
Normal Retirement. Pursuant to A.R.S. §§ 38-881 (7, 11, 27, 28, 41 and 43) and 38-885, retirement benefits will commence the first day of month following termination
of employment and based upon the following:
 Age 62 with 10 years of service: 62.5% of the member’s average monthly salary plus 2.5% of the average monthly salary multiplied by each year of credited service
over 25 (include fractional years).
 Age 52.5 with 25 or more years of credited service: 62.5% of the member’s average monthly salary plus 2.5% of the average monthly salary multiplied by each year
of credited service over 25 (include fractional years).
 Age 52.5 with 25 years of service but less than 25 years of credited service: Average monthly salary multiplied by the member’s total credited service multiplied by
2.5%.
Employees who became a member on or after January 1, 2012 are not eligible for a “Deferred Annuity.” However, a member who attains the service requirement for a
normal retirement, but does not meet the age requirement, may elect to leave contributions on account until reaching the age requirement and then elect to receive a
retirement benefit (survivor benefits, benefit increases, or the group health insurance subsidy). A.R.S. § 38-911(B).
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RETURN TO WORK AFTER RETIREMENT
A retired member may become re-employed and continue to receive a pension if the employment occurs twelve (12) months or more after retirement. The retired
member shall not contribute to the fund and shall not accrue credited service. A.R.S. § 38-884(K).
If a retired member becomes employed by an employer in a designated position before twelve (12) months after retirement, the retired member’s pension shall be
suspended during reemployment in a designated position and the retired member shall not make contributions to the Plan nor accrue credited service during such
reemployment. A.R.S. § 38-884(K).
Retired CORP members that returned to work, entitled to continue to receive a pension from the Plan pursuant to Laws 2006, Chapter 241, section 1 and who is em-ployed
by an employer of the CORP as of 9/30/2009 is entitled to again begin receiving the retired member’s pension from the Plan effective 9/30/2009. (HB 2326,
Section 12, Previous return to work retirees).
Effective July 20, 2011, the employer is required to pay an alternate contribution rate on behalf of a retired member who returns to work in any capacity in a designated
position ordinarily filled by an employee. The current alternate contribution rate is 6.0%. A.R.S. § 38-891.01.
Effective July 20, 2011, the premium benefit (subsidy) will not apply if the retired member or survivor is reemployed and participates in health care coverage provided
by the member's or survivors new employer. A.R.S. § 38-906(D).
SALARY
Salary is defined as the base salary/wages, shift differential pay, military differential and holiday pay paid to an employee for personal services rendered in a designated
position to a participating employer on a regular monthly, semimonthly or biweekly payroll basis. For the purposes of the paragraph above, “base salary/wages”
means the amount of compensation each member is regularly paid for personal services rendered before the addition of any extra monies, including overtime pay, shift
differential, holiday pay, sale of compensatory time, fringe benefit pay and similar extra payments. A.R.S. § 38-881(41).
SERVICE PURCHASE
Purchase of Prior Active Military Service. Members with at least ten (10) years of credited service with the Plan may purchase up to sixty (60) months of credited service
for periods of active military service performed before employment with their current employer (even if the member receives a military pension). A.R.S. § 38-907(A).
Active members may also receive credited service limited to sixty (60) months if ordered/volunteered to active military service while working for the current employer if
the criteria is met pursuant to A.R.S. § 38-907. The member shall pay the members contributions, upon which the employer shall make employer contributions. If
member performs military service due to presidential call-up, the employer shall make the employer and employee contributions not to exceed forty-eight (48) months
pursuant to A.R.S.38-907 (G). For more information, contact your employer.
Purchase of Prior Service from an Out-of-State Agency. Active members with at least five (5) years of credited service with the Plan that have previous service with an
agency of the U.S. Government, a state of the U.S., or a political subdivision of a state of the U.S. as a full-time paid corrections officer, or full-time paid certified peace
officer may elect to redeem up to sixty (60) months of any part of the prior service if the prior service is not on account with any other retirement system.
A.R.S. § 38-909.
Purchase of Prior Forfeited Service within the SAME Retirement Plan. If a former member becomes RE-EMPLOYED with the SAME EMPLOYER and, within two (2) years
after the former member's termination date and applies with the Plan (within ninety days of reemployment), may elect to purchase all of the previously forfeited cred-ited
service. The amount required to reinstate the credited service is the amount previously withdrawn plus interest at the rate of 9% compounded annually from the
date of withdrawal to the date of repayment and the reimbursement is required to be paid within one (1) year from the date of reemployment. A.R.S. § 38-884(I).
(Form C1B), OR
If the statutory requirements above are not met, the member may still purchase some or all of the previously forfeited credited service calculated based on an amount
computed by the Plan’s actuary to equal the actuarial present value of the account. A.R.S. § 38-884(J). (Form C2).
Purchase of Service Between the Arizona Retirement Plans/Systems. Members of any of the four Arizona state retirement System/Plans that have credited service under
another Arizona state retirement System/Plan may redeem the credited service to their current Arizona state retirement System/Plan by paying the full actuarial pre-sent
value of the credited service into the current Arizona retirement System/Plan with the approval of the CORP or governing board. A.R.S. § 38-922.
TAXATION OF RETIREMENT BENEFITS
All CORP retirement benefits in excess of $2,500 annually will be subject to Arizona state tax. A.R.S. §§ 38-896, and 43-1022.
TRANSFERS
Transfer of Contributions Between CORP Employers. A member who terminates employment with an employer and accepts a position with the same or another em-ployer
participating in the Plan shall have their credited service transferred to their record with the new employer if they leave their accumulated contributions on
deposit with the Plan. The period not employed shall not be considered as credited service. A.R.S. § 38-908.
Transfer of Service Between the Arizona Retirement Plans/Systems. Members of any of the four Arizona state retirement System/Plans that have credited service under
another Arizona state retirement System/Plan may transfer the credited service to their current Arizona state retirement System/Plan by transferring the full actuarial
present value of the credited service into the current Arizona retirement System/Plan with the approval of the CORP or governing board. A reduced credited service
amount may be transferred based on the transfer of the actuarial present value of the credited service under the prior Arizona state System/Plan. A.R.S. §§ 38-921 and
38-922.
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Transfer of Service Between Municipal Retirement Systems & Special Retirement Plans. An active or inactive member of a retirement System or Plan of a municipality of
this state (i.e., City of Phoenix and City of Tucson) or of the CORP may transfer the service to their current retirement System or Plan based on the member’s accumulated
contributions plus interest, or the member may elect a reduced service amount to be transferred based on the actuarial present value. A.R.S. §§ 38-923 and 38-924.
CONTINGENT LIABILITIES
The System is a party in various litigation matters. While the final outcome cannot be determined at this time, management is of the opinion that the final outcome
will be favorable or the final obligation, if any, for these legal actions will not have a material adverse effect on the System’s financial position or results of operations.
This is not an official version of the Arizona Revised Statutes. If there are any differences or discrepancies, the official version will prevail.
NOTE 2: SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND PLAN ASSET MATTERS
BASIS OF ACCOUNTING
CORP financial statements are prepared using the accrual basis of accounting. Member and employer contributions are recognized when due, pursuant to formal com-mitments,
as well as statutory or contractual requirements. Benefits are recognized when due and payable in accordance with the terms of the Plan. Refunds are due
and payable by state law within 20 days of receipt of a written application for a refund. Refunds are recorded when paid.
Furniture, fixtures and equipment purchases costing $10,000 or more, when acquired, are capitalized at cost. Improvements, which increase the useful life of the prop-erty,
are also capitalized. Investment income net of administrative and investment expenses are allocated to each employer group based on the average relative fund
size for each employer group for that year.
By state statute, the Plan is required to provide information in the financial statements used to calculate Net Effective Yield. Net Effective Yield includes only realized
gains and losses. The Net Realized Gains (Losses) used in this calculation totaled $38,880,876 for FYE 2012 and $56,158,378 for FYE 2011. This calculation is independ-ent
of the calculation of the change in the fair value of investments and may include unrealized amounts from prior periods.
ESTIMATES
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make
estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of net assets held in trust for pension benefits at June 30, 2012. Actual results could differ from those
estimates.
NOTE 3: CASH AND INVESTMENTS
CASH
Custodial credit risk for deposits is the risk that in the event of a bank failure, the Plan’s deposits may not be returned. The deposits are held in two financial institutions
with a balance of up to $250,000 (permanently guaranteed as of July 21, 2010) insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The Plan mitigates custo-dial
credit risk for deposits by requiring the financial institution to pledge securities from an acceptable list in an amount at least equal to 102% of the aggregate
amount of the deposits on a daily basis.
In addition to the FDIC insurance coverage on the operating and money market accounts of CORP, Wells Fargo pledged the following securities to Public Safety Person-nel
Retirement System, CORP, and the Elected Officials’ Retirement Plan on June 30, 2012, as collateral:
Description CPN Maturity Market Value
FNMA Pool AH0006 4.00 12-1-2040 1,655,452
FNMA Pool AH0007 4.00 12-1-2040 2,069,431
FNMA Pool AH0125 3.50 1-1-2041 1,303,689
FNMA Pool AH0946 4.00 12-1-2040 5,899,210
FNMA Pool AH0969 3.50 12-1-2025 36,105
FNMA Pool AH1264 4.00 1-1-2041 183,058
FNMA Pool AH1516 3.00 12-1-2025 4,541,065
FNMA Pool AH3394 4.00 1-1-2041 109,321
FNMA Pool AH6783 4.00 3-1-2041 5,858,140
Description CPN Maturity Market Value
FNMA Pool AH6993 4.50 2-1-2041 5,034,974
FNMA Pool AH7905 4.00 7-1-2041 1,126,561
FNMA Pool AH9937 4.50 5-1-2041 2,260,959
FNMA Pool AI1186 4.00 4-1-2041 212,081
FNMA Pool AI1163 4.50 4-1-2041 1,117,916
FNMA Pool AI6900 3.00 10-1-2026 3,007,744
FNMA Pool AI6897 3.00 10-1-2026 1,238,083
FNMA Pool AJ1625 3.00 10-1-2026 10,543,022
TOTAL 46,196,811
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FINANCIAL SECTION
All monies shall be secured by the depository in which they are deposited and held to the same extent and in the same manner as required by the general depository
law of the state. Cash balances represent both operating and cash accounts held by the bank and investment cash on deposit with the investment custodian. All de-posits
are carried at cost plus accrued interest. The following table is a schedule of the aggregate book and bank balances of all cash accounts as of June 30, 2012:
INVESTMENTS
CORP investments are reported at Fair Value. Fair Values are determined as follows: Short-term investments are reported at cost plus accrued interest. Equity securities
are valued at the last reported sales price. Fixed-income securities are valued using the last reported sales price or the estimated fair value as determined by fixed-income
broker/dealers plus accrued interest. Investments in hedge funds are valued monthly at the last reported valuations. Limited partnership investments in credit
opportunities, private equity, real assets and real estate are valued on a quarterly or monthly basis at last reported valuations adjusted by any subsequent cash flows.
Joint venture real estate investments are reported at fair value using either appraisals or manager assessment to estimate the fair value. Appraisals will be performed
every three years on a rolling schedule unless circumstances warrant otherwise. Investment income is recognized as earned.
Statutes enacted by the Arizona Legislature authorize the Board of Trustees to make investments in accordance with the "Prudent Man" rule. The Board of Trustees is
not limited to so-called "Legal Investments for Trustees." In making every investment, the board shall exercise the judgment and care under the circumstances then
prevailing which men of ordinary prudence, discretion and intelligence exercise in the management of their own affairs, not in regard to speculation but in regard to
the permanent disposition of their funds, considerin g the probable income from their funds as well as the probable safety of their capital, provided:
1) That not more than eighty percent of the combined assets of the system or other plans that the board manages shall be invested at any given time in corporate
stocks, based on cost value of such stocks irrespective of capital appreciation.
2) That not more than five percent of the combined assets of the system or other plans that the board manages shall be invested in corporate stock issued by any one
corporation, other than corporate stock issued by corporations chartered by the United States government or corporate stock issued by a bank or insurance company.
3) That not more than five percent of the voting stock of any one corporation shall be owned by the system and other plans that the board administers, except that this
limitation does not apply to membership interests in limited liability companies.
5) That corporate stocks and exchange traded funds eligible for purchase shall be restricted to stocks and exchange traded funds that, except for bank stocks, insurance
stocks and membership interests in limited liability companies, are either:
a) Listed or approved on issuance for listing on an exchange registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (15 United States Code §78a
through §78ll).
b) Designated or approved on notice of issuance for designation on the national market system of a national securities association registered under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (15 United States Code §78a through §78ll).
c) Listed or approved on issuance for listing on an exchange registered under the laws of this [Arizona] state or any other state.
d) Listed or approved on issuance for listing on an exchange registered of a foreign country with which the United States is maintaining diplomatic relations at
the time of purchase, except that no more than twenty percent of the combined assets of the system and other plans that the board manages shall be invested
in foreign securities, based on the cost value of the stocks irrespective of capital appreciation.
e) An exchange traded fund that is recommended by the chief investment officer of the system, that is registered under the investment company act of 1940 (15
United States Code Section 80a-1 through 80a-64) and that is both traded on a public exchange and based on a publicly recognized index.
A.R.S. § 38-848.B as amended in 2008 authorized the Board of Trustees to commingle the assets of all the plans entrusted to its management, subject to the crediting
of receipts and earnings and charging of payments to the appropriate employer, system or plan. As a result, the various assets of the Public Safety Retirement System,
Elected Officials’ Retirement Plan, and the Corrections Officer Retirement Plan were unitized beginning September 1, 2008 into the PSPRS Trust. Investments for each
fund are allocated daily via a constant dollar unitization methodology. Realized and unrealized gains are allocated monthly using the same methodology.
At June 30, 2012, the fair value of the PSPRS Trust and the allocation for each system and plan was as follows:
A small portion of the assets (real estate) remain outside the comingled funds, representing approximately 6 basis points of the total.
PLAN UNITIZED PERCENT
PSPRS 5,042,941,294 76.17%
CORP 1,283,259,612 19.38%
EORP 294,171,509 4.45%
TRUST TOTAL 6,620,372,415 100.00%
REPORTED AMOUNT BANK BALANCE
Pension Trust Fund $ 24,052,442 $ 24,052,442
Operating Fund 2,661,781 2,661,781
Total Deposits $ 26,714,223 $ 26,714,223
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CUSTODIAL CREDIT RISK
Custodial Credit Risk is the risk that CORP will not be able (a) to recover deposits if the depository financial institution fails or (b) to recover the value of the investment
or collateral securities that are in the possession of an outside party if the counterpart to the investment or deposit transaction fails. As of June 30, 2012, CORP has no
fund or deposits that were not covered by depository insurance or collateralized with securities held by our banks’ trust department or agent; nor does CORP have any
investments that are not registered in the name of CORP or the PSPRS Trust and are either held by the counterpart or the counterpart’s trust department or agent.
CREDIT RISK
Credit Risk is the risk that an issuer or other counterparty to an investment will not fulfill its obligation to the Plan. As of June 30, 2012, the Plan’s fixed income assets
that were not government guaranteed represented 95.1% of the fixed income portfolio.
Each portfolio is managed in accordance with investment guidelines that are specific as to permissible credit quality ranges, exposure levels within individual quality
tiers, and the average credit quality of the overall portfolios. According to those guidelines, the fixed income portfolio must have a minimum weighted average quality
rating of A3/A-. Fixed income securities must have a minimum quality rating of Baa3/BBB– at the time purchase. The portion of the bond portfolio in securities rated
Baa3/BBB– through Baa1/BBB+ must be 20% or less of the fair value of the fixed income portfolio.
Included in the fixed income portfolio are cash equivalents or commercial paper. Commercial Paper must have a minimum quality rating of A-1/P-1 at the time of
purchase. Investments in derivatives are limited to collateralized mortgage obligations (CMO), collateralized bond obligations (CBO), collateralized debt obligations
(CDO), and asset-backed securities (ABS).
In preparing this report, collateral for securities lending has been excluded because it is invested in a securities lending collateral investment pool.
The following tables summarize the Plan’s fixed income portfolio exposure levels and credit qualities.
CONCENTRATION OF CREDIT RISK
Concentration of credit risk is the risk of loss that may be attributed to the magnitude of a government’s investment in a single issue. Other than bonds used as direct
obligations of and fully guaranteed by the U.S. Government, not more than 5% of the Fund or its fixed income portfolio at fair value shall be invested in bonds issued by
any one institution, agency or corporation.
INTEREST RATE RISK
Interest rate risk is the risk that changes in interest rates will adversely affect the fair value of an investment. This risk is managed within the portfolio using segmented
time distributions. It is widely used in the management of fixed income portfolios in that it quantifies the risk of interest rate changes. The Plan does invest in fixed
income securities with floating rates that contain coupon adjustment mechanisms in a rising interest rate environment.
FAIR VALUE
JUNE 30, 2012
% OF ALL FIXED
INCOME ASSETS
WEIGHTED
FIXED SECURITY TYPE AVG. CREDIT
Corporate Bonds 158,296,554 96.0% A
Mortgages 2,153,463 1.3% BBB
CBO 4,505,189 2.7% Below BBB
Total 164,955,206 100.0%
AVERAGE CREDIT QUALITY AND EXPOSURE LEVELS OF NON-GOVERNMENT
GUARANTEED SECURITIES
CREDIT RATING LEVEL CORPORATE BONDS MORTGAGES CBO
AAA - - -
AA 4,058,989 - -
A 14,326,642 - 2,114,190
BBB 4,324,878 68,104 -
Below BBB 587,384 2,085,359 2,390,999
Not Rated 134,998,661 - -
Total 158,296,554 2,153,463 4,505,189
RATINGS DISPERSION DETAIL
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The following tables quantify, to the fullest extent possible, the interest rate risk of the Plan’s fixed income assets.
FOREIGN CURRENCY RISK
Foreign currency risk is the risk that changes in the foreign exchange rate will adversely impact the fair value of an investment. The PSPRS is allowed to invest part of its
assets in foreign investments.
The following table shows the System’s exposure to foreign currency risk (U. S. dollars):
FIXED INCOME SECURITY <1 1-5 6-10 11-15 16-20 >20
Corporate - 8,382,456 8,513,860 1,501,907 1,149,463 138,748,868
Agencies - - - - 4,446,132 4,103,398
CBO - - 2,390,999 - - 2,114,190
CDO - - - - - -
Total - 8,382,456 10,904,859 1,570,011 6,294,739 146,352,671
Mortgages - - - 68,104 699,144 1,386,215
SEGMENTED TIME DISTRIBUTION BY SECURITY TYPE
(INCLUDING GOVERNMENT GUARANTEED SECURITIES)
CALLABLE BONDS BY SECURITY TYPE
(INCLUDING GOVERNMENT GUARANTEED SECURITIES)
FIXED INCOME
SECURITY TYPE
FAIR VALUE
JUNE 30, 2012
Corporate 2,012,959 1.16%
Agencies - 0.00%
Total 2,012,959 1.16%
% OF ALL FIXED
INCOME ASSETS
CURRENCY SHORT TERM FIXED INCOME
AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR 10,378 -
SWISS FRANC 60,870 -
TOTAL MARKET VALUE 467,252 13,312,747
CANADIAN DOLLAR 17,956 -
DANISH KRONE 12,861 -
EURO CURRENCY UNIT 59,267 13,312,747
HONG KONG DOLLAR 22,674 -
ISRAELI SHEKEL 2,730 -
JAPANESE YEN 226,674 -
NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 1,198 -
NORWEGIAN KRONE 6,567 -
POUND STERLING 37,648 -
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1,917 -
SWEDISH KRONA 6,512 -
EQUITY
8,993,122
12,082,947
1,175,299
27,555,270
3,108,713
589,651
22,153,272
132,036
942,007
23,741,923
1,861,263
3,172,705
8,634,990
114,143,198
OTHER
-
-
-
11,860,099
-
-
-
-
-
5,797,684
-
-
-
17,657,783
TOTAL
9,003,500
12,100,903
1,188,160
52,787,383
3,131,387
592,381
22,379,946
133,234
948,574
29,577,255
1,863,180
3,179,217
8,695,860
145,580,980
FOREIGN CURRENCY RISK
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DERIVATIVES
Derivative instruments are financial contracts whose values depend on the values of one or more underlying assets, reference rates, or financial indexes. They include
futures contracts, options contracts, and forward foreign currency exchange. The Board of Trustees has adopted a derivative policy that specifically authorizes external
investment managers to enter into certain derivative contracts based on an analysis that the use of such derivatives will have a positive impact on the Trust’s ability to
manage its underlying assets and liabilities. The PSPRS Trust investment program, indirectly through its external managers, holds investments in futures contracts. The
external money managers enter into these certain derivative instruments primarily to enhance the performance and reduce the volatility of the PSPRS portfolio, to gain
or hedge exposure to certain markets, and to manage interest rate risk. The external managers are required to follow certain controls, documentation and risk man-agement
procedures when employing these financial instruments.
The fair value exposure associated with these derivative instruments was recorded on the financial statements as a portion of the unrealized gains and losses related to
U.S. Equity and Fixed Income. The total of unrealized gains for CORP was $775,937 at June 30, 2012 consisting of U.S. Equity (gain of $771,401) and Real Assets (gain of
$4,536). Interest risk associated with these investments are included in the tables on page 34.
SECURITY LENDING PROGRAM
The Plan is party to a securities lending agreement with a bank. The bank, on behalf of the Plan, enters into agreements with brokers to loan securities and have the
same securities returned at a later date. The loans are fully collateralized primarily by cash. Collateral is marked-to-market on a daily basis. Non-cash collateral can be
sold only upon borrower default. The Plan requires collateral of at least 102% of the fair value of the loaned U.S. Government or corporate security. Securities on loan
are carried at fair value.
As of June 30, 2012 the fair value of securities on loan was $24,988,379 and the collateral was $25,984,058 for Corrections Officer Retirement Plan. The Plan receives a
negotiated fee for its loan activities and is indemnified for broker default by the securities lending agent.
The Plan participates in a collateral investment pool. All security loans may be terminated on demand by either the lender or the borrower. All matched loans shall
have matched collateral investments. The total cash collateral investments received for unmatched loans (any loan for which the cash collateral has not been invested
for a specific maturity) will have a maximum effective duration of 233 days. And, at least 20% of total collateral investments shall be invested on an overnight basis. At
June 30, 2012, the weighted average maturity was 113 days for all investments purchased with cash collateral from unmatched loans. The Plan has no credit risk be-cause
the amounts owed to the borrowers exceed the amounts the borrowers owe to the Plan.
Prior to the current fiscal year, under this program, the Plan has not experienced any defaults or losses on these loans. However, in November 2008 CORP was informed
that due to recent market events one or more securities lending collateral vehicles that held assets had been impaired. This potential liability will be realized upon
settlement of the recovery process or if there becomes a liquidity issue with the collateral pool. A liability of $2,076,327 has been recorded as CORP’s share.
NOTE 4: CAPITAL ASSETS
These assets are stated at cost, and depreciable assets are depreciated using the straight-line method over the estimated life of the asset. Repairs and maintenance are
charged to expense as incurred. Depreciation expense for June 30, 2012 was $36,914.
The table below is a schedule of the capital asset account balances as of June 30, 2011, and June 30, 2012, and changes to those account balances during the year
ended June 30, 2012.
ASSET CLASS OUT ON LOAN
TOTAL AVAILABLE
TO LOAN
% OF AVAILABLE
TO LOAN
Equities $ 13,586,178 $ 24,197,388 56.15%
Agencies - - -
Treasuries 3,281,890 3,293,158 99.66%
Exchange Traded 8,120,311 11,761,856 69.04%
Totals $ 24,988,379 $ 39,252,402 63.66%
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LAND
BUILDING AND
IMPROVEMENTS
FURNITURE,
FIXTURES
AND EQUIPMENT
CAPITAL ASSETS
Additions - 20,039 24,518 44,557
Deletions - - - -
Balance June 30, 2012 86,588 648,990 188,615 924,193
ACCUMULATED DEPRECIATION
Balance June 30, 2011 - (107,587) (125,401) (232,988)
Additions - (17,938) (18,976) (36,914)
Deletions - - - -
Balance June 30, 2012 - (125,525) (144,377) (269,902)
Net Capital Assets $ 86,588 $ 523,465 $ 44,238 $ 654,291
TOTAL
CAPITAL ASSETS
Balance June 30, 2011 $ 86,588 $ 628,951 $ 164,097 $ 879,636
SCHEDULE OF CAPITAL ASSET ACCOUNT BALANCES
NOTE 5: CONTRIBUTIONS REQUIRED AND CONTRIBUTIONS MADE
The Retirement System's funding policy provides for periodic employer contributions at actuarially determined rates that, expressed as percentages of annual covered
payroll, are designed to accumulate sufficient assets to pay benefits when due. The normal cost and actuarial accrued liability are determined using a projected unit
credit actuarial funding method. Unfunded actuarial accrued liabilities and assets in excess of actuarial accrued liabilities are being amortized as a level percent of pay-roll
over a twenty-five (25) year period. Beginning July 1, 2007, the minimum employer contribution rate was established at 6%.
During the year ended June 30, 2012, contributions totaling $110,914,890 ($58,946,996 employer [$50,575,854 pension and $8,371,142 health insurance subsidy
contributions in excess of the benefits paid] and $51,967,894 member) were made in accordance with contribution requirements determined by an actuarial valuation
of the Plan as of June 30, 2010. The employer contributions consisted of approximately $41,386,996 for normal cost [$35,906,295 pension and $5,480,701 health
insurance subsidy] plus $17,560,000 for amortization of the actuarial accrued liability in aggregate [$14,669,559 pension and $2,890,441 health insurance subsidy].
Employer contributions represented 9.50% of covered payroll [6.67% for normal costs (6.05% pension and .62% health insurance) and 2.83% for amortization of assets
in excess of the actuarial accrued liability in aggregate (2.23% pension and 0.60% health insurance)]. Member contributions represented 7.96% (Dispatchers) and
8.41% (Non-Dispatchers) of covered payroll and are attributable to normal costs.
NOTE 6: OTHER BENEFITS
The PSPRS adopted a supplemental defined contribution plan for all contributing members of an eligible group. An eligible group is defined as the employees of the
Board of Trustees, PSPRS, the CORP and the EORP. The employees of any of these eligible groups must make an election to participate within two years after the em-ployee
first meets the eligibility requirements to participate in the plan. The election to participate is irrevocable and continues for the remainder of the employee’s
employment with the employer. If an employee elects to participate, the employee must contribute at least 1% of the employee’s gross compensation. The IRS main-tains
that the Employers designate the amounts contributed by each employee. All amounts contributed are subject to the discretion and control of the Employer.
Employee contributions and earnings to the plan are immediately vested. Employer contributions, if any, are vested based on the following schedule:
Less than one year of service 0%
One year but less than two 20%
Two years but less than three 40%
Three years but less than four 60%
Four years but less than five 80%
Five years or more 100%
PSPRS administers the supplemental defined contribution plan through Nationwide Retirement Solutions, Inc. All contributions are sent directly to the third party
administrator from the participating employer groups.
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NOTE 7: HEALTH INSURANCE SUBSIDY- AGENCY FUND
The plan description, summary of significant accounting policies, investment policies and contributions required for the health insurance subsidy are the same as the
retirement plan and can be found under Notes 1, 2 and 5. The health insurance premium subsidy provided by A.R.S. §38-857 consists of a fixed dollar amount set by
statute and paid by the System on behalf of eligible retired members. The subsidized health benefits are provided and administered by the Arizona State Retirement
System, Arizona Department of Administration or the participating employer of the retired member. According to Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB)
Statement No. 43, the health insurance subsidy paid by the System represents other post employment benefits. The Plan does not administer a separate healthcare
plan as defined under IRC §401(h) or an equivalent arrangement. In addition, the Plan is not statutorily authorized to maintain a separate account for the health insur-ance
subsidy assets and benefit payments. Therefore, in accordance with GASB No. 43, the healthcare subsidy is reported as an agency fund. All assets of the Plan are
available to pay both pension benefits and health insurance subsidy. The pension benefits and health insurance subsidy are funded through employer contributions
based on an annual actuarial valuation. Contributions are separately accounted for by employer but are not segregated by contribution type.
Contributions in excess of the health benefit subsidy payments are reported in the retirement plan. Therefore, no accumulated assets or liabilities to participating em-ployers
are reported in the agency fund. For FY2012 contributions collected for the health insurance subsidy amounted to $8,371,142 and the health benefit subsidy
payments were $2,890,441. The excess contributions of $5,480,701 were added to the retirement plan for reporting purposes. Effective FY2008, each participating
employer is required by GASB Statement No. 45 to disclose additional information with regard to funding policy, the employer’s annual OPEB cost and contributions
made, the funded status and funding progress of the employer’s individual plan and actuarial methods and assumptions used.
NOTE 8: PLAN TERMINATION
CORP and its related plans are administered in accordance with Arizona statutes. These statutes do provide for termination of the plans under A.R.S. 41-3016.18. The
plans are scheduled to terminate on July 1, 2016.
NOTE 9: CONTINGENCIES
Some of our real estate partners in the investments categorized as “other investments” have obtained third party financing, which is secured by real property. The Plan
has entered into Capital Call Agreements with regards to these third party financing arrangements. The Capital Call Agreements, in the unlikely event of default, limit
the Plan to the amount of the defaulted payment or the original terms of the investment approved by the Board of Trustees, whichever is less. In management’s opin-ion,
any loss realized due to current economic conditions will not have a material effect on the financial statements.
As stated in Note 3 – Cash and Investments (under the Security Lending Program heading), the Plan was notified of a situation involving one or more security lending
collateral vehicles that held assets which have been impaired as a result of recent market events. An estimate of the unrealized loss is approximately $10.7 million for
all three plans and has been recorded as a liability. It is anticipated that a final resolution will be reached this next fiscal year.
NOTE 10: FUNDING STATUS AND PROGRESS
The Plan’s funded status (excluding health insurance subsidy) as of the most recent valuation data is as follows:
The required schedule of funding progress immediately following the notes to the financial statements presents multi-year trend information about whether the actu-arial
value of plan assets is increasing or decreasing over time relative to the actuarial accrued liability for benefits.
The actuarial methods and assumptions used for the pension benefits are as follows:
Valuation Date: June 30, 2012
Actuarial Cost Method: Entry Age Normal
Amortization Method: Level Percent of Payroll, Closed
Remaining Amortization Period: 24 years closed for unfunded accrued actuarial liability
Asset Valuation Method: 7-Year Smoothed Market Value, 80%/120% Market
Investment Rate of Return: 8.00%
Projected Salary Increases: 5.00-8.25% which includes inflation at 5.00%
Actuarial valuations involve estimates of the value of reported amounts and assumptions about the probability of events far into the future, and the actuarially deter-mined
amounts are subject to continual revision as actual results are compared to past expectations and new estimates are made about the future. Actuarial calcula-tions
reflect a long-term perspective. Consistent with this perspective, actuarial methods and assumptions used include techniques that are designed to reduce short-term
volatility in actuarial accrued liabilities and the actuarial value of assets. The actuarial calculations are based on the benefits provided under the terms of the Plan
in effect at the time of each valuation. These benefits are described in Note 1 under “Summary of Benefits”.
ACTUARIAL
VALUE OF
ASSETS
ACTUARIAL
ACCRUED
LIABILITY
UNFUNDED
AAL(UAAL)
FUNDED
RATIO
ANNUAL
COVERED
PAYROLL
UAAL AS A %
OF COVERED
PAYROLL
(A) (B) (B-A) (A/B) (C) ((B-A)/C)
06/30/12 1,512,989 2,140,662 627,673 70.7% 626,223 100.2%
ACTUARIAL
VALUATION
DATE
(IN THOUSANDS)
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ACTUARIAL
VALUATION
DATE
ACTUARIAL
VALUE OF
ASSETS
$ (A)*
ACTUARIAL
ACCRUED
LIABILITY
(AAL) AT
ENTRY AGE
$ (B)*
UNFUNDED
AAL
(EXCESS)
(UAAL)
$ (B-A)*
FUNDED
RATIO
(A/B)
COVERED
PAYROLL
$ (C)
UAAL AS A
PERCENTAGE
OF COVERED
PAYROLL
((B-A)/C))
06-30-03 758,579 709,298 (49,281) 106.9% 358,161 (13.8)%
06-30-04 833,621 795,775 (37,846) 104.8% 381,942 (9.9)%
06-30-05 872,981 906,025 33,044 96.4% 404,156 8.2%
06-30-06 919,867 981,207 61,340 93.7% 437,743 14.0%
06-30-07 940,126 1,061,811 121,685 88.5% 515,428 23.6%
06-30-08 1,207,026 1,336,662 129,636 90.3% 642,621 20.2%
06-30-09 1,309,124 1,515,563 206,439 86.4% 630,825 32.7%
06-30-10 1,382,144 1,648,733 266,589 83.8% 616,481 43.2%
06-30-11 1,466,750 1,914,464 447,715 76.6% 609,243 73.5%
06-30-12 1,512,989 2,140,662 627,673 70.7% 626,223 100.2%
SCHEDULE OF FUNDING PROGRESS
(IN THOUSANDS)
NOTE 11: REQUIRED SCHEDULES
The Schedule of Funding Progress and the Schedule of Employer Contributions are presented immediately following the notes to the financial statements.
REQUIRED SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
* Entry Age Normal Cost method through 6-30-05. Projected Unit Credit method from 6-30-06 through 6-30-10. Entry Age Normal since 6-30-11.
* Beginning 6-30-07, funded ratio calculation does not include AAL for the health insurance premium subsidy. If the AAL for the health insurance premium subsidy were
included, the funded ratio would be 84.6% for 2007, 86.8% for 2008, 82.6% for 2009, 80.3% for 2010, 73.0% for 2011 and 67.8% for 2012.
* See Notes to the Schedules of Required Supplementary Information.
* Total Employer Contributions received during FY2007 were $24,622,693. GASB reporting requires discretely reporting the health insurance subsidy separately from the retirement plan. As a
result, the annual required contributions for the health insurance subsidy were calculated to be $5,742,051. The benefits paid for the health insurance subsidy were $1,913,186. The difference
between the calculated annual required contributions and the benefits paid of $3,828,865 were then added back to the annual required contributions for the retirement plan. This required
calculation resulted in a percent contributed of 120.0% for the retirement plan.
FISCAL
YEAR
ENDED
JUNE 30,
ANNUAL
REQUIRED
CONTRIBUTIONS
PERCENTAGE
CONTRIBUTED
2003 7,397,595 100.0%
2004 14,555,335 100.0%
2005 16,291,914 100.0%
2006 24,028,050 100.0%
2007 22,709,507 120.0% *
2008 43,858,925