Madison is Wisconsin’s capital city and home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, one of the largest public research universities in the United States, along with Epic Systems — the dominant electronic health records company whose 10,000-plus employee campus in nearby Verona anchors a substantial technology-sector workforce. The Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS), which covers state employees,…
Long Beach is California’s seventh-largest city and home to one of the most economically diverse retirement savings pools in Southern California. The Port of Long Beach — the second-busiest container port in the United States — employs thousands of ILWU-represented dock workers and port-related professionals covered by the ILWU-PMA Pension Plan. Beyond the port, Long…
Virginia Beach is the largest city in Virginia by population and one of the largest military concentrations in the United States. Naval Station Norfolk — the world’s largest naval station — sits immediately adjacent to Virginia Beach, and Naval Air Station Oceana is located within the city limits. Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek–Fort Story also…
Colorado Springs is the second-largest city in Colorado and one of the most concentrated military communities in the United States. The city is home to the U.S. Air Force Academy, Fort Carson (4th Infantry Division), Peterson Space Force Base, NORAD, U.S. Northern Command, U.S. Space Command, and Schriever Space Force Base — collectively employing tens…
Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in Texas and the thirteenth-largest in the United States, home to more than 935,000 residents and anchored by a concentration of major corporate headquarters, defense manufacturing, and one of the nation’s largest military reserves. With American Airlines, BNSF Railway, and Lockheed Martin Aeronautics all operating major employment bases in…
Anchorage is home to roughly 40% of Alaska’s population and the center of its retirement-account economy. The metro combines a deep federal and military base — Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) anchors a large TSP cohort, alongside FAA, NOAA, and other federal employers — with the energy sector (ConocoPhillips Alaska, Hilcorp, and the Alyeska Pipeline workforce),…
Stockton anchors San Joaquin County in California’s Central Valley, where two distinct economies overlap: a deep agricultural base — almonds, walnuts, cherries, wine grapes, and dairy among the most productive in the state — and a fast-growing logistics and super-commuter corridor feeding the Bay Area through the Altamont Pass. That mix produces a broad pool…
St. Petersburg sits in Pinellas County, part of a Tampa Bay metro that holds one of the highest concentrations of residents age 65 and older in the country — which makes it one of the most concentrated Gold IRA markets in Florida. The city is also a genuine corporate center: Raymond James Financial, Jabil, and…
Riverside anchors the Inland Empire, one of the fastest-growing metros in California and the logistics gateway for goods moving through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. That economy produces an unusually broad mix of rollover-eligible retirement balances: a very large public-sector base (Riverside County and its cities participate in CalPERS, school employees in…
St. Louis sits at the center of one of the densest corporate-headquarters and institutional-employer clusters in the Midwest, which makes it a metro with an unusually large pool of rollover-eligible retirement balances. Boeing Defense, Space & Security, Centene, Edward Jones, Emerson Electric, Reinsurance Group of America, Stifel Financial, Express Scripts (Evernorth/Cigna), Anheuser-Busch, Enterprise Holdings, Ameren,…
