Sentences with phrase «public employee pension funds»

New York's Department of Financial Services has been closely examining the state's multibillion - dollar public employee pension funds for the past two years, and its findings will soon be made public.

Amid ongoing warnings about underfunded public employee pension funds, more than a dozen California state lawmakers are augmenting their $ 107,242 salaries by collecting retirement payments from previous government jobs, a practice that taxpayer activists condemn as «double dipping.»

New York's Department of Financial Services has been closely examining the state's multibillion - dollar public employee pension funds for the past two years.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, sole trustee of the state public employee pension fund, is again pushing for energy giant ExxonMobil to disclose how efforts to mitigate global warming will impact its corporate bottom line.

Resnick noted that Oregon's public employee pension fund lowered its assumed rate of return this summer from 7.75 percent to 7.5 percent.

The people in Denver who bother to read the news, especially the ones who are or will be dependent on the Colorado public employees pension fund (PERA), were greeted with a shock Tuesday.

New York City's biggest public employee pension fund is poised to vote today to begin pulling its investments from hedge funds, the latest move by a large pension plan to scrap an investment path that once promised big returns.

Hyping the difficulty of public employee pension funds is one of the few growth industries in the current economy.

These large Rust - Belt metropolitan areas are collapsing under the weight massive budget deficits and catastrophically underfunded public employee pension funds.

What: Forced out of office in 2006 for trading access to New York's $ 124 billion public employee pension fund for $ 1 million in benefits — including campaign contributions and luxury trips to Israel and Italy.

Legislators in New Jersey and teachers in Florida are now calling for public employee pension funds to sell their shares of firearms companies.

Pension income, whether from a public employee pension fund or from a private employer, is also taxable.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo previously has said he planned to halt future fossil fuel investments in the state's public employee pension fund.

What: Forced out of office in 2006 for trading access to New York's $ 124 billion public employee pension fund for $ 1 million in benefits — including campaign

New York State's public employee pension fund is putting billions of dollars into green energy and renewable energy

NEW YORK — Former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi traded access to New York's $ 124 billion public employee pension fund for $ 1 million in benefits — including campaign contributions and luxury trips to Israel and Italy.

Unfortunately, the new state budget won't help either despite allocation an additional $ 6 billion from the state's reserves to pay its public employee pension fund.

It seems like an odd, even convoluted tale: The director of New York state's public employee pension fund, nearly $ 2 million of which is invested in doughnuts (and ice cream, since Dunkin' also owns Baskin Robbins), filed a resolution asking that the company reconsider its use of palm oil, whose production is a major contributor to deforestation in Indonesia and elsewhere.

Amid ongoing warnings about underfunded public employee pension funds, more than a dozen California state lawmakers are augmenting their $ 107,242 salaries by collecting retirement payments from...