3) National: David Webber urges a rule change by the Labor Department to ensure that
public pension trustees act in the interest of public employees, and not use pension fund money to promote outsourcingto private, for - profit companies that kill public jobs.
And let's hope that other
public pension trustees and other public officials are following this instructive tale.»
Not exact matches
To support private sector efforts in expanding access to housing, the Ministry of Finance will partner with banks,
pension trustees and securities market players to start a process of developing and deepening the local mortgage and housing finance market to offer affordable mortgages at subsidized interest rate beginning with
public sector workers.
Tax returns for state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli show the sole
trustee for the $ 152 billion
pension fund received almost $ 9,000 from investments and interest on top of his $ 146,838
public salary in 2012.
As a
trustee of the City's largest
public pension fund, I have repeatedly called for the divestment of all
public pension dollars from gun retailers and manufacturers, and I am encouraged by the Mayor's call today to divest from assault weapon manufacturers.
All five Borough Presidents sit on the Board of
Trustees of the city's
pension fund — including Scott Stringer, who defeated Spitzer to win the Democratic nomination for City Comptroller, and
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.
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.
Matthew Cordaro, a former Long Island Lighting Co. executive who is now a LIPA
trustee, said the additional
pension costs point to the potential pitfalls of the
public - private partnership under which LIPA has operated since its 1998 takeover of the electric grid.
The state's chief fiscal watchdog, DiNapoli is the sole
trustee of the Common Retirement Fund — the third largest
public pension system in the nation, and holder of more than $ 200 billion in assets.
Public Advocate James, who appoints a
pension fund
trustee, came close to endorsing divestment in her remarks.
The comptroller is the sole
trustee of a $ 184 billion
pension fund for more than 1 million
public workers and retirees, with the taxpayers on the line to cover shortfalls.
Trustees of
public pensions have a fiduciary duty to realize expected returns.
THAT NYSUT establish a task force which shall include member - participants in each of the
public retirement systems, including the retirement plan
trustees, if applicable, to discuss possible methods, including legislation, to harness and use
public pension plan resources to improve poor labor practices and to provide workers the right to organize and bargain collectively in enterprises controlled by private equity funds, as well as other corporate interests; and
Specifically, the UFT shall not ask teacher unions,
public employee unions, private sector unions and not - for - profit organizations to call upon the
trustees or other persons responsible for investment decisions of the
pension and retirement funds covering their members and / or employees to not invest in these investment funds.
A Hedge Fund Sales Pitch Casts a Spell on
Public Pensions New York Times: «The report was really intended to give information to
pension trustees so they could ask the tough questions and fulfill their fiduciary duties to the funds and their participants,» said Randi Weingarten, president of the teachers» union.
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