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Perennial invests in oil equipment stocks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... activity worldwide after its share price fell more than 36 per cent following the events in April. The $152 billion New York State Pension Fund is suing BP over losses from the incident. The pension fund claims BP misled investors about its safety procedures ...

NY fund sues BP over oil spill losses

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
The $152 billion New York State Pension Fund is suing British Petroleum over losses from the oil spill disaster. In a press statement, New York state comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, the trustee of the NY fund, said he was hiring law firm Cohen Milstein ...

DiNapoli slams raid rumours

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
... state pension systems. "My first job as state comptroller is to protect 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 ...

US pension funds boost mortgages

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
The $146 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund has pumped $564 million into Fannie Mae mortgages in New York to help stabilise mortgage lending in the state. According to a press statement by state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, the $564 million ...

Wall Street's $22bn bitter pill

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... levels, according to estimates from the US state's comptroller. Thomas DiNapoli, state comptroller at the office of New York State, annually releases its bonus estimates of securities industry employees that work in New York. The estimates found bonuses ...

PE firm pays NY fund $20m in compensation

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
... Leuschen, the founder of private equity firm Riverstone Holdings, has been ordered to pay US$20 million to the New York State Common Retirement Fund. US Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced an agreement with Leuschen to resolve Leuschen's role ...

NY fund invests $200m in climate change

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
The New York State Common Retirement fund invested $200 million in the FTSE Environmental Technology 50 and HSBC Global Climate Change Index. Thomas DiNapoli, the New York State Comptroller, invested the funds in line with the fund's Green Strategic ...

UN PRI names de-listed signatories

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
... group's annual reporting and assessment progress. In addition, three signatories including the Mennonite Mutual Aid, New York State Teachers' Retirement System (NYSTRS) and Rapaki Property Group voluntarily left the initiative. Signatories are given ...

NY fund blacklists Gazprom and Petrobras

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2009
The New York State Common Retirement Fund has pulled out $100 million of the fund's investments in nine companies including Gazprom, Oil & Natural Gas Corp and Petrobras on the back of a genocide report. The New York State comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli ...

US pensions fight for trust

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... restoring investor trust. The ten funds, which include heavyweights California Public Employees' Retirement System, New York State Common Retirement Fund, and Los Angeles City Employees' Retirement System among others, have developed five principles ...