Friday, September 25, 2015

When You Buy a Ferrari and You Really Need a Pickup Truck

What happens when you buy a Ferrari, when you need a pickup truck?

You pay 10 times too much for what you need, you don't get what you need, and you pay a lot for mechanics. What you do get is a fast car.

It's too bad that the NYCERs doesn't even get a fast car when they make the wrong investment decisions.

Here's the the bill for the mechanics. And once again NYCERS is not even getting Ferrari mechanics.

As of August 2, 2015 the Comptroller increased the salaries of his investment staff. The story is that the five city pension funds were convinced to pay for the increases through their mindless subsidy to the Comptroller's budget. Of course, that is an illusion. It is the NYC taxpayers and the NYC employees who are paying for these increases. In fact, the employees pay twice, once as a taxpayer and a second time through their pension payroll deductions.

All the lucky people listed below are provisional employees. I wonder how permanent civil servants feel about that?

This is in addition to the five investment consultants that NYCERS paid $3.2M in FY-2014. Consultants are not the managers who do the actual investing but "experts" who advise the trustees on how oversee the managers.

Salary Increases at the Comptroller's Office

Count Name Civil Service Title Assignment % Increase New Salary Old salary New Hire
1Scott EvansPension Investment AdvisorCIO 56%$350,000$224,359
2 Michael Garland Admin Staff Analyst Corporate Governance 56%$265,000$169,872
3John MerseburgAdmin Staff Analyst Public Equities93% $250,000$129,650yes
4Niel MessingAdmin ManagerHedge Funds 67%$250,000$149,701
5Alexis DoneAdmin Staff AnalystPrivate Equity 75% $280,000$160,000
6Martin GantzAdmin Staff AnalystFixed Income 62%$280,000$172,840
7Yvonne NelsonAdmin Staff AnalystReal Estate 69%$265,000$156,805
8Petya NikolovaAdmin Staff Analyst Infrastructure 59%$250,000$157,233
9 Miles Draycott Admin Staff Analyst$265,000
10Evan NahnsenAdmin Manager$180,000
11Noraina ParesAdmin Staff Analyst$130,000
12 Tatiana Pohotsky Admin Manager $160,000
13 Wesley Pulisic Admin Manager $180,000
14 Steven Veloric Admin Accountant $160,000
15 Scott Zdrazil Admin Manager $170,000
16 Marc Gross Admin Staff Analyst $110,000 $70,833 yes
17 Vistoria Hui Admin Staff Analyst $120,000 $85,000 yes
18 Janet Londond-Valle Admin Staff Analyst $130,000
19 Karen Barclay Admin Manager $160,000
20 Shachi Bhatt Admin Staff Analyst $160,000
21 Yi Feng Admin Manager $180,000
22 Millicen Budhai-Robinson Admin Staff Analyst $110,000
23 Eneasz Kadziela Admin Manager $130,000
24 Lakhir Kaur Admin Manager $110,000 $70,000 yes
25 Louis Lent Admin Accountant $110,000
26 Barbara Nersten Admin Accountant $120,000 $70,789 yes
Total = $4,875,000

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