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CalPERS calls for ratings overhaul

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
The US' largest pension fund, California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), has backed efforts to push rating houses Fitch, Moody's and Standard & Poor's to reform their methods for rating government-issued bonds. According to a statement ...

CalPERS pumps cash into fund-of-funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
US pension giant California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has invested an extra $323.1 million last week for emerging managers. CalPERS has awarded $161.5 million each to emerging manager fund-of-funds manager Leading Edge Investment ...

Largest US pension fund SIO resigns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
Christianna Wood, senior investment officer, global equity of US pension fund giant CalPERS, has jumped ship to take up the position of chief executive of hedge fund sponsor, Capital Z Asset Management. Wood will leave CalPERS in mid-February, and Eric ...

Global competition drives local investor services

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2007
... services globally, said Laurence Bailey, chief executive of JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services. "We used to compare CalPERS to the entire Australian superannuation system, Not any more," he said. Bailey said the downside of this intense competition ...

US pension funds no longer the big boys

... Netherland's ABP with US$226 billion. The largest US pension fund, the California Public Employees' Retirement System (Calpers), came in at number 5 with US$196 billion, versus its 2000 number one ranking with US$171 billion. To put in context, the largest ...

CalPERS pre-empts healthcare funding crisis

... packaged in what it calls a "pre-funding" trust fund. The $300 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) fund has launched the California Employers' Retiree Benefit (CERB) trust fund this month. Eligible employers who outsource ...

Ironbridge rounds up $1b in PE capital raising

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2006
... many of whom are first-time investors in the Australasian private equity market. They include GIC Special Investments, CalPERS, AlpInvest, Partners Group, Gartmore and LGT Capital Partners. Significantly, Ironbridge Capital is the first Australian private ...

US Clean Tech opportunities opened to local market

... team has extensive experience working with the US pension funds in private equity mandates with two of the biggest funds CalPERS and calSTRS already committing $US400 million in clean technology. The clean technology fund's core focus is on the clean ...

CalPERS boss given marching orders

Sean Harrigan, the President of America's biggest pension fund, California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), has been removed from his post. Harrigan lost his job at the $177-billion fund after the state's Personnel Board voted three to ...

Calpers files suit against NYSE for fraud

Calpers, the biggest US public pension plan, has filed suit against the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and seven specialist trading firms for fraud, it has announced. "We have filed a multimillion-dollar law suit in the US District Court in the state ...