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6 Mar 2011, 6:10 pm
Public pension funds are even more likely to do so. [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 2:00 am
Last week in this post, I wrote about the California Controller John Chiang’s announced intention to sponsor legislation to shut the revolving door between California’s two largest public retirement systems, CalPERS and CalSTRS, and the private sector. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 12:41 pm
Securing the value of the State Pension is crucial. [read post]
29 Dec 2010, 6:45 am
In addition to Canadian pension funds, another emerging source of investment is coming from U.S. state pension funds that are creating new independent firms – such as the South Carolina Retirement System Investment Commission – to oversee their funds’ private equity holdings (similar to the direct investment funds created by two of Canada’s biggest pension plans, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and the… [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 9:43 am
It is called "CalPERS", for California Public Employees Retirement System, and in 2007 it held $261 billion dollars of invested assets. [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 9:03 am
Earlier this month, the US Social Investment Forum (SIF) released its 2010 Report on Socially Responsible Investing Trends. [read post]
19 Oct 2010, 11:00 am
This unrealistic prognostication, Wilson believes, is rooted in the state's use of discount rate standards established by the lax Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB), instead of those set by its private sector equivalent, Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), which is stricter, and Wilson believes, more accurate. [read post]
26 Aug 2010, 12:20 pm
Studies have consistently shown that the greater the extent to which a public pension fund is subject to direct political control, the worse its investment returns. [read post]
26 Aug 2010, 3:23 am
Patrick Quinn signed into law amendments1 to the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act (IWPCA, which become effective January 1, 2011.An irony between war and the workplaceVenable LLPThe world of politics often illuminates the chasm between what we consider acceptable in our society as opposed to our workplaces.Non-union employer pays $900,000 to settle labor board caseStinson Morrison Hecker LLPThe NLRB announced on July 12, 2010, that a non-unionized employer will pay $900,000 in back… [read post]
18 Aug 2010, 8:57 pm
In Europe, we’ve already seen the private sector financial crisis morph into a public sector crisis. [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 5:15 am
Financial Sector Reform 15. [read post]
3 May 2010, 11:50 pm
Freddie went public in 1989. [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 12:28 pm
The resolution had been supported by Fair Pensions, a UK group that lobbies pensions and other large institutional investors to make socially and environmentally responsible investments. [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 6:52 am
Health Benefit Exchanges Neither the Affordable Care Act nor the Reconciliation Act create a new government health insurance plan, the so-called “public option,” to compete with private insurers. [read post]
4 Mar 2010, 6:09 am
Whatever the supposed cure-of-the-moment, the result is highly predictable: Public concern diminishes, the lobbies flourish, and the cycle starts again. [read post]
3 Mar 2010, 6:14 am
Think about the consequences for those who held options in these companies, who held a huge sum of public money, as the stock now begins to come back. [read post]
19 Jan 2010, 11:43 am
The Shell motion The initiative is being co-ordinated by FairPensions, campaigning organisation founded in 2005 to promote responsible investment in the pensions and investment industry. [read post]
18 Jan 2010, 2:56 pm
This concept envisions both private discussions but, if necessary, escalating public actions from statements to resolutions to requests for board changes. [read post]
26 Dec 2009, 7:48 am
The recent and current focus of policy debate in the UK and elsewhere has understandably been on the nature, scale and need for continuance of such public policy support and the shape, extent and timing of further regulatory tightening. [read post]
22 Nov 2009, 9:05 am
Public, private and union pension funds, mutual funds, private investment funds (including hedge funds), insurance companies, banks, endowments, and sovereign wealth funds are subject to varying levels of regulation, have distinct investment horizons and strategies, and exhibit varying levels of interest in the governance of portfolio companies. [read post]
