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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 ...

CalPERS may lose $947 million

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) may lose nearly $950 million from its investments in US housing crash-victim LandSource. CalPERS invested $947 million in US property developer LandSource, which recently filed for bankruptcy ...

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 ...

Ambachtsheer receives Outstanding Industry Contribution Award

... speaker of the 8th IMCA Australian Annual Conference, where he will be talking about what the ideal 21st century retirement system should look like and how that compared to the current Australian system. Michelle Baltazar

Canadian fund slams investment restrictions

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
Canada's sixth largest pension fund, the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) has called for the Ontario Expert Commission on Pensions to remove rules that restrict how much pension funds can invest in certain assets. The fund claimed ...

US pension funds no longer the big boys

... and then 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 ...

CalPERS pre-empts healthcare funding crisis

... solution 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 ...

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

... losses caused by illegal trading practices on the New York Stock Exchange," said California Public Employees' Retirement System president Sean Harrigan. "This lawsuit alleges that the NYSE as an institution, together with the specialist firms it is supposed ...