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CalPERS board members endorse new lobbying rules
Sacramento :: CA :: USA | 17 days ago
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Board members at California's huge state pension fund offered support Thursday for a plan to register as lobbyists the controversial middlemen hired by private investment funds to help get lucrative business from public pension plans...No opposition was...
Tags: placement agents, Alfred J.R. Villalobos, California State Teachers, board member, Rob Feckner, calpers board, investment fund, Sacramento, Pension fund, Public Employee Pension Plans, Private placement agent, Business Finance, CalPERS, Private equity, Venture capital, Social Issues, Labor
CalPERS board votes to tighten disclosure rules for middlemen
Sacramento :: CA :: USA | 21 days ago
Credibility The embattled board of the California Public Employees' Retirement System tightened rules requiring outside investment managers to disclose information about the sales intermediaries who help them do business with the $200-billion pension fund...Andrew...
Tags: disclosure policy, placement agents, Sacramento, Venture capital, Pension fund, Private placement agent, Public Employee Pension Plans, Wilshire Associates, Business Finance, CalPERS, Private equity firms, Private equity, Social Issues, Labor, Financial services, Investment, Finance
CalPERS endorses legislation to curb investment abuse
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 25 days ago
Credibility Controller John Chiang and Treasurer Bill Lockyer, who also sit on the board. The legislation would require placement agents to register as lobbyists. It would also ban the payment of agents on a contingency basis. Agents generally are paid 1 percent...
Tags: placement agents, pension fund
CalPERS to consider requiring placement agents to register as lobbyists
New York City :: NY :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Highly paid financial intermediaries at the center of a growing uproar over the way California's huge public pension plan invests its money may soon be required to register as government lobbyists and regularly report their fees and clients...But critics...
Tags: placement agents, pension fund, California, public pension
Real estate deal could cost CalPERS $500 million
Boston :: MA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility The likely loss, first reported in today's Wall Street Journal, marks the latest setback for the real estate portfolio at the California Public Employees' Retirement System. The portfolio stood at $17.87 billion as of July 31 and had lost 36 percent of...
Tags: pension fund, Calpers Probes Fees Paid, Arvco Financial Ventures LLC, california public, public employees, board member, outside managers, calpers board, placement agents, special reviewing
FDA investigating Del. heparin deaths
Delaware :: DE :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility Del. — The Food and Drug Administration is investigating the death of two Delaware hospital patients who were given the blood thinner heparin. Officials at Beebe Medical Center in Lewes said three patients suffered adverse reactions after being given...
Tags: blood thinner, Baxter International Inc., placement agents, FDA
Member of Los Angeles pension board resigns
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility Mayoral appointee Kelly Candaele quits after inquiries about his involvement in a fundraiser for city attorney candidate Jack Weiss. April 29, 2009 The City Council voted in 2004 to bar city commissioners and board appointees from engaging in campaign...
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NY comptroller bans agents in pension investments
Albany :: NY :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility Amid a growing corruption scandal, New York's comptroller on Wednesday barred investment firms soliciting business from the state pension fund from employing lobbyists known as placement agents. More Business The move comes about a month after state...
Tags: pensions fund, New York State Common, New York City, Steven Rattner, placement agents, New York Times, N.Y. Comptroller Bans Middlemen, pensions invested, invested firms, public pensions
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