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13 Oct 2015, 5:00 am by Randi Morrison
The 2015 survey of 24 engaged activist firms revealed that 70% expect an increase in cooperation or “future partnerships” with institutional investors and pension funds in pursuing their target companies – and all perceive greater acceptance by these institutional investors. [read post]
Unlike public pension funds and other institutional investors, retail shareholders are under no legal obligation to vote, are not much encouraged by anyone to do so, and remain largely unorganized. [read post]
The Comptroller of the City of New York, who oversees pension funds with a combined $160 billion in assets, recently submitted proxy access shareholder proposals at 75 U.S. public companies as part of its Boardroom Accountability Project. [1] These 75 companies, representing a wide range of industries and market capitalizations, were targeted based on three "priority issues": climate change, board diversity, and executive compensation. [read post]
The SRP, a clinical program operating at Harvard Law School, works on behalf of public pension funds and charitable organizations seeking to improve corporate governance at publicly traded companies, as well as on research and policy projects related to corporate governance. [read post]
4 Jun 2015, 11:29 pm
While the days of full federal pension are essentially over, federal employees still have a variety of good options for employee-funded retirement programs with federal government matching available. [read post]
30 Jun 2014, 12:00 pm by Giles Peaker
The post is principally funded through our LAA contract. [read post]
24 Jul 2013, 8:06 pm by Jonathan H. Adler
These funds are property of the retirees, much as the collateral a borrower puts up to secure a loan belongs to the lender. [read post]
14 Sep 2018, 12:11 pm by James Kim
These lawsuits against pension and settlement advance companies are striking exceptions to acting Director Mulvaney’s public statements that the Bureau will neither push the envelope nor regulate by litigation/consent order. [read post]
15 Aug 2016, 12:52 pm by Barney Allison
I recognize the role of private finance in these transactions, as well as the recent involvement of public pension funds as investors in P3 transactions, but to be clear: P3 is not all about the money—it’s about the performance and the value provided to the public sector and taxpayers of the transfer of design, construction and maintenance risk to the private sector. [read post]
15 Aug 2016, 12:52 pm by Barney Allison
I recognize the role of private finance in these transactions, as well as the recent involvement of public pension funds as investors in P3 transactions, but to be clear: P3 is not all about the money—it’s about the performance and the value provided to the public sector and taxpayers of the transfer of design, construction and maintenance risk to the private sector. [read post]
25 Aug 2023, 6:31 am
(August 10, 2023) – For the 2023 proxy season, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS)—the world’s largest educator-only pension fund with more than $315 billion in assets—stepped up its efforts to hold companies around the globe accountable for failing to address climate change risks: CalSTRS voted against the boards of directors at a record 2,035 global companies because they did not provide necessary climate risk disclosures. [read post]
25 Aug 2023, 6:31 am
(August 10, 2023) – For the 2023 proxy season, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS)—the world’s largest educator-only pension fund with more than $315 billion in assets—stepped up its efforts to hold companies around the globe accountable for failing to address climate change risks: CalSTRS voted against the boards of directors at a record 2,035 global companies because they did not provide necessary climate risk disclosures. [read post]
28 Nov 2012, 8:34 am by Kirk Jenkins
Retirement Board of the Firemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago, No. 114811 – a case on the proper calculation of annuities under the Pension Act for firefighters’ widows arising from the First District, Division Three. [read post]
8 Jul 2015, 2:29 pm by David Cosgrove
Georgia law allows most public pension funds in the state to purchase alternative investment funds, but the investments are subject to certain restrictions that Gray Financial Group’s fund allegedly failed to meet. [read post]
9 Aug 2021, 5:53 am
With the assets in their reserve funds and multiemployer pension plans, and with support from other institutional investors, labor harnessed capital to restore its strength. [read post]
18 Nov 2013, 4:19 am
The proportion decreased to 75.3 percent for governance-related proposals (217 versus 288), presumably due to the large number of those proposals introduced by public pension funds, which often diversify their investment portfolios across a wide range of market capitalizations.Executive compensation proposals were filed in similar proportions by single investors and labor unions, while the highest concentration of proposals related to social and environmental policy issues… [read post]
9 Aug 2012, 11:00 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
Roger Rosenthal, of Latham and Florida, returned to work as "Acting Comptroller" at THA while collecting an annual New York state pension of approximately $47,000, and allegedly submitted falsified documents to avoid legal restrictions on "double-dipping," or collecting a public pension while working for a public employer. [read post]