Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 11 - 18 of 18 results for "Illinois"

Lessons from US pension funds in crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
... pension funding simply to catch up on already-made promises. The next four states on the list are Colorado, Rhode Island, Illinois, and Alabama. These states would need to devote 8.3, 7.7, 7.2, and 6.4 years of tax revenue respectively to close the liability ...

DiNapoli slams raid rumours

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
... the one million members, and the rest of New York State taxpayers, from the irresponsibility that has left New Jersey, Illinois, California and dozens of other public pension funds across the nation dangerously under-funded. "I will fight any raids on ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
... points to its highest close since May 19. Industrials made some of the biggest moves following upbeat news from Boeing and Illinois Tool Works (ITW). Boeing rose four per cent after increasing production of the 737 jet. The company said customers are ...

Risk-free no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2010
... bonds of home-improvement retailer Lowe's in Mooresville, North Carolina, drugmaker Abbott Laboratories of Abbott Park, Illinois, and Toronto-based Royal Bank of Canada have also been below Treasuries, Trace data show." How could this be? Aren't corporate ...

TRS pumps $1.26bn into PE

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2008
US-based Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois (TRS) pours $1.26 billion of new funds into private equity after its $2.3 billion investment in the sector turned to be a money spinner returning 23 per cent in the year to March. TRS confirms ...

Enron Part Two

... scale to happen again, in the wake of the sub-prime led market crisis. Professor Ira Solomon, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has argued that a massive overhaul of auditing practices is needed to prevent a recurrence of corporate ...

Mariner's US property trust keeps growing

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2007
... its growth trajectory. The Mariner fund has entered into a contract to buy a six storey multi-tenant office building in Illinois for US$24.35 million, with the fund's total assets now valued at US$304 million. The purchase price is at a discount to the ...

SRI next gen - funds that only invest in companies run by women

... match their financial and social criteria from across a broad range of industries. WEL's top 10 shareholdings are BP, Illinois Tools Works, BankAmerica, Chubb, WW Grainger, Microsoft, T Rowe Price, Willington, CostCo and Wochovia. But the portfolio is ...
PAGE:
2