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SEC charges New Jersey with fraud

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... billion worth of municipal bonds across 79 offerings, carried out between August 2001 and April 2007. As a result, the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund and the Public Employees' Retirement System were under the false impression that they were adequately ...

Govt to ramp up FinLit in national school curriculum

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... funding will be used to provide face-to-face training by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission to 6,000 teachers and online teacher training modules linked to the national curriculum. ASIC and the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting ...

US pension funds get $800m from class action

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... approval. "This historic settlement is an excellent result for all shareholders harmed by AIG's misconduct, including Ohio's teachers, firefighters, police officers, and public employees. Ohio is determined to send a strong message to the marketplace ...

Super-sized super powers up

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
... company has already seen how scale has become a game-changer for their pension fund clients, which includes the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP). It is among the largest pension funds in Canada with assets of $140 billion - more than treble the ...

School staff take up super advice: NGS Super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
Teachers are practicing what they preach, taking up the free financial advice services offered by NGS Super at an unprecedented rate in the last six months - proof that not everyone's indifferent about their retirement savings. In May last year, NGS ...

CalSTRS finances solar energy project

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
The California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) and a number of investors have invested more than $175 million to help a solar energy company build 14 solar power plants in the US. The equity finance will be used to support solar energy company ...

Bill backed for calling placement agents lobbyists

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
... money managers to seek investments from public pension funds - who do business with CalPERS and the California State Teachers' Retirement System. The four-to-one vote came following testimony in support of a bill from State Controller John Chiang, Treasurer ...

Transurban deal off Future Fund table

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
... statement yesterday, stating it has "terminated discussions with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Ontario teachers' pension plan regarding their proposal to acquire Transurban Group". The fund did not provide further comment on why discussions ...

Instos lobby for Main Street

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
... mentality, and did not hold management sufficiently accountable. Anne Sheehan, director corporate governance, California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) said "Do empower owners - regulators can only do so much." Meanwhile Anne Simpson, senior ...

Tax breaks no enough: seniors

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
... work. O'Neill's comments come after Henry proposed lower marginal tax rates for older Australians at the Australasian Tax Teachers Association conference this week. He said tax policy design must recognise the costs to the community of high marginal ...