# Professor Lawrence White discusses the impact of stock market corrections on pension funds

1 Faculty News August 24, 2015 ![NY1 News logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031426.gif?itok=fvySWnbY)>

Excerpt from [NY1 News](http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2015/08/24/market-correction-may-put-city-and-state-pension-funds-at-risk.html) -- "'There is a separate whole academic debate about whether pension plans of any kind should be investing in the stock market because of this kind of volatility,' said [Lawrence White](http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/lawrence-white), a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business."

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