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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Government plans - state and local - investments of Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines [Opinion] Ohio Public Retirement Systems Need Overhaul, Not More Tweaks Auditor: San Diego Pension Initiative Overstates Savings Considerations in Preparing Disclosure in Official Statements on a Government Bond Issuer's Pension Funding Obligations (PDF) [Opinion] What If 'Say on Pay' Rule Applied to Public Pension Consultants and Managers? Is Stock Market Recovery Providing Light at the End of the Tunnel for State and Local Pensions? [Opinion] That Which is Unsustainable Will Go Away: Pensions Governmental Pension Plans: Can Peter's Sponsor Borrow From Peter To Pay Peter? CalSTRS Brings Shareholder Derivative Suit Agains Wal-Mart Directors Bill Encourages Public Pension Plans to Put California Projects First; Advances on Unanimous, Bipartisan Vote GAO Reports on State Efforts to Improve Sustainability of Government Pension Plans [Opinion] Illinois is the Public Pension Basket Case You Forgot About California Teachers' Pension Plan Shortfall Grows Public Pension Funds: Tens of Billions at Significant Risk Public Pension Pitfalls: What Municipal Budget Troubles Mean for Bond Investors Critics Say Virginia's Pension Reform Was Rushed Through Should Public Pensions Be Invested in Infrastructure? Public Pensions Funds Find Riskier Investments Fail to Pay Off Public Pension Plan Assets Decline for First Time Since 2009 [Opinion] American Fidelity Assurance Company ? Low Fees for Us; High Fees for Educators Finances of Selected State and Local Government Employee Retirement Systems, 4th Quarter 2011 Lone Star State's Local Pension Plans Hit Long-Term Benchmarks, Report Finds [Guidance Overview] Municipalities Betting on Pension Bonds to Save the Day? CalPERS Reform a Wake-Up Call for Pensioners N.C. Sues BNY for $95 Million Lehman Investment Two Ohio State Pension Funds Sue Bank: Overcharges Alleged on Stock Trades Made on Foreign Exchanges [Guidance Overview] Massachusetts Creating Country's Largest Open Multiple Employer Plan New York Cities Borrow from Pension Funds to Make Payments Into Pension Funds [Opinion] Structural Factors of the Municipal Pension Crisis Illinois' Public Pensions Worse Than Numbers Show New Pension Plan Passes Wyoming House and Senate Wall Street Fees Surged As Pension Fund Sagged New Jersey Pension Reform Lawsuit Tossed Support Drops for Kansas 401(k)-Style Pension Plan for Public Workers [Opinion] Getting Pension Systems to Work As They Should Will Be One of the Toughest Tests Governments Face in Coming Decades Stockton, CA Teeters on the Edge of Bankruptcy A Pension Plan That Works for All Pension Funds Are For-Profit U.S. Pension Woes Worsening? Salary 'Spiking' Drains Public Pension Funds, Analysis Finds GAO: Most public pension plans have enough assets to last at least 10 years [Opinion] State Health Insurance Mandates Now Total 2,262, Costs Go Up for Everybody To Pay New York Pension Fund, Cities Borrow From It First Ensure your Plan Participants are Prepared for a Secure Retirement Avoid the Common Mistakes Affecting Plan Loans Webcast Public Pension Plan Investment Returns (PDF) Time to Tighten Rules on U.S. Pensions An Analysis of Risk-Taking Behavior for Public Defined Benefit Pension Plans [Opinion] Politicians put taxpayers at risk chasing gain for pension plans The State and Local Pension Crisis California Teachers' Retirement Fund Commits $500 Million to Infrastructure Facebook's Corporate Governance Rules a Concern for CalSTRS Lower Your Earnings Assumption, Milliman Tells Second-Largest Public Pension Plan Public Pensions Pile on Risk to Beat Underfunding [Opinion] California Public Pension Funds Should Disclose When Investment Earnings Miss The Mark AFSCME Plan Files 21 Shareholder Proposals Pension Fund Sues MetLife Claiming False Data Punished Stock [Opinion] Who Knew? 80% Funding Target for Pension Funds Just An Urban Legend Internal Bank Papers Show Worry over Florida Pursuit of Pension Fraud Quarterly Summary of the Finances of Selected State and Local Government Employee Retirement Systems (PDF) Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. But BenefitsLink is not the author or publisher of those linked pages (except as expressly indicated). You should contact directly the author of any such linked pages for copyright or other information about their contents. Webmaster: Dave Baker (click)   ·   © 2012 BenefitsLink.com, Inc. (contact the webmaster for reprint permission)   ·   Linking: Feel free to link directly to this page, even without specifically crediting BenefitsLink ® as its source. Glad you're here!   ·   Privacy Policy