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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Ret plan investments - social Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines Unhappy with Scandal, New York Municipal Pension Funds to Vote Against Wal-Mart Directors CalPERS Releases First Report on Its Environmental, Social and Governance Work Young Investors Using New Tools to Weight Equities More Heavily in Asset Allocation Should Public Pensions Be Invested in Infrastructure? Pension Funds Are For-Profit Ensure your Plan Participants are Prepared for a Secure Retirement Avoid the Common Mistakes Affecting Plan Loans Webcast [Opinion] The Pension Promise Facebook's Corporate Governance Rules a Concern for CalSTRS [Opinion] The Case Against Pension-Financed Infrastructure More 401(k) Retirement Plans Are Offering 'Socially Responsible' Funds Consumer Finance: Regulatory Coverage Generally Exists for Financial Planners, But Consumer Protection Issues Remain (PDF) [Guidance Overview] New Hampshire High Court Upholds Pension Divestment Pension Funds and Socially Responsible Investment: Results of an Expert Survey New Missouri Bill Requires Terrorism Divestment in Pension Funds [Opinion] Overcoming Short-termism: A Call for A More Responsible Approach to Investment and Business Management Making Defined Benefit Plans Sustainable Through Plan Design and Dynamic Liability-Driven Investing Interpretive Bulletin 08-1 and Economically Targeted Investing: A Missed Opportunity Coalition of U.S. State Pension Funds Supports Private Equity Industry's Opposition to New Rules on Takeovers of Troubled Lenders [Opinion] The Academy's Pension Practice Council's Response to GASB's Invitation to Comment on Pension Accounting and Financial Reporting (PDF) ERISA Requires Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance Considerations, U.N. Report Says Bill to Require 'Say on Pay' Introduced in Senate (PDF) [Opinion] Brief Analysis of Socially Responsible Investing Think Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Were a Politicized Financial Disaster? Just Wait Until Pension Funds Implode Fiduciary Responsibility and ETIs: A Conflict? Investment Funds Push an Environmental Agenda - Pension Funds Joining the Effort [Guidance Overview] ERISA for Money Managers (PDF) [Guidance Overview] EBSA Clarifies Fiduciary Duties Regarding Proxy Voting It Takes a Plan to Ride Out Bad Times with 401(k) Savings [Guidance Overview] EBSA Reinforces Position on Investment of Plan Assets and Shareholder Rights [Guidance Overview] DOL's Updated Fiduciary Guidance on Exercising Shareholder Rights and Making Economically Targeted Investments [Opinion] Should Feds Rescue Retirement System, Too? [Opinion] American Fiduciaries Must Not Vote Plan Proxies [Guidance Overview] DOL Updates Guidance on Economically Targeted Investments, Exercise of Shareholder Rights Plan Assets for Retirements, Not Politics, Department of Labor Says Guidance Needed for Labor Department's Guidance on Pension Plan Activism DOL Says Plan Assets for Retirements, Not Politics EBSA Gives Thumbs Down to SRI Investment Criteria New Hampshire Judicial Retirement Plan Sues on Divestment Law Pension Fund Activism: The Double-Edged Sword [Opinion] Are State Officials Risking Public Employee Retirement Benefits by Playing Global Warming Politics? CalSTRS Adds Public Health Criteria to Investment Policy Statement Big Funds Eye Reinvesting in Tobacco Firms Two Public Pension Funds' Virtuous Mistake: CalPERS and CalSTRS Do-Good Investment Strategy Has Cost California Retirees Billions NH Retirement Systems Must Divest Sudan-Related Holdings Mercer's HRadio Podcast, July 15, 2008 Social Investing Revisited? Green 401(k) Plans ProxyDemocracy Web Site Provides Tools to Help Investors Put Their Voting Power to Use Twenty States Have Passed, or Are Considering, Divestment Laws, for Pension Funds [Opinion] Tide May Be Turning Against Practice of Divesting Pension Funds from Terrorist States CalPERS Toughens Standards on Corporate Governance Maine Rejects Bid to Divest Investment Proposed - that Two Largest Texas Pension Funds Loan Money for Infrastructure Projects State Divestment Legislation Institutional Investors Fuel Surge in Socially Responsible Investing Resources on Mandatory Divestment Issues NYC Public Pensions to Companies - Reveal Political Payouts [Opinion] Michigan Governor Calls for Pension Plan Investment in State [Opinion] The Socially Responsible Investing Fiduciary Cop-Out, Round 2 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. 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