Tag: Public

Benefits | May 24th, 2010

Baltimore Officials Ponder Pension Cost-Saving Changes

May 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Baltimore city officials are considering a host of changes to their underfunded police and fire...

Administration | May 21st, 2010

IL TRS Launches Search for International Bond Manager

May 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Board of Trustees of the Teachers’ Retirement System has launched a nationwide search for...

Administration | May 21st, 2010

Bill Encourages Diversity among CA Pension Investment Managers

May 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California's public pension funds would have to report the ethnicity and gender of some of...

Administration | May 21st, 2010

Golden State Placement Agent Bill Stalls in Committee

May 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A move to limit pension placement agents’ influence over California’s public pension programs came to...

Deals and People | May 19th, 2010

Kenyatta Matheny to Administer IL TRS Emerging Manager Program

May 19, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Kenyatta K. Matheny has been named an investment officer for the Illinois Teachers’ Retirement System...

Administration | May 18th, 2010

Study Makes a Case for Increasing MOSERS Staff Pay

May 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A study by CBIZ Human Capital Services of St. Louis makes a case for giving...

Administration | May 17th, 2010

RI Public Employee Unions Fight Cutbacks in Court

May 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A coalition of Rhode Island public employee unions has gone to court to challenge state...

Administration | May 17th, 2010

NJ Officials: Benefits Changes are Legal

May 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – New Jersey Attorney General Paula T. Dow has asserted that changes in government worker pensions...

Benefits | May 16th, 2010

Los Angeles Voters to Get Pension Cutback Referendum

May 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said he will schedule a public referendum to decide whether...

Benefits | May 16th, 2010

MA Senate Approves Pension Changes

May 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Massachusetts Senate has unanimously approved a pension reform measure.

Deals and People | May 11th, 2010

Indiana’s Largest Pension Funds Announce Executive Director

May 11, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Steve Russo has been selected to lead Indiana's two largest public pension systems with combined...

Administration | May 10th, 2010

RI Pension Board Attacked Over Real Estate Investment

May 10, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – West Warwick, Rhode Island, officials have asked the state pension board’s real estate consultant to...

Benefits | May 10th, 2010

MN Senate Passes Bill to Shore up Pensions

May 10, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Minnesota Senate last week approved an omnibus pension bill.

Administration | May 10th, 2010

PA Pension Divestment Measure Sails through Senate

May 10, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Pennsylvania state Senate has approved a measure mandating that the Keystone State’s two largest...

Administration | May 10th, 2010

Pittsburgh Could See Pension Funding Tax Levy

May 10, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl is proposing that those working in the Western Pennsylvania city should...

Administration | May 7th, 2010

NY Funds Reach Countrywide Suit Agreement

May 7, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A $624-million settlement has been reached between New York State and New York City pension...

Administration | May 7th, 2010

Conflict-of-Interest Charges against Former Pension Officials Dropped

May 7, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Prosecutors have dropped conflict-of-interest charges against six former members of the San Diego pension board...

Administration | May 6th, 2010

Maryland Pension Engages Alternative Investment Consultants

May 6, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Maryland State Retirement Agency (SRA) today announced that it has signed...

Administration | May 6th, 2010

New York Pension System Ups Investment in Fannie Mae Mortgages

May 6, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The $129.4 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund has committed to invest an additional...

Administration | May 6th, 2010

NC Pension System Considering Shift from Bonds

May 6, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - North Carolina’s $69 billion pension system, the 10th-largest public system in the U.S., is considering...