COLUMBIA, S.C.-- South Carolina's pension fund investments are expected to post double-digit earnings for the current fiscal year. The Retirement System Investment Commission said Thursday its investments earned $3 billion between last July 1 and April 30, pushing the fund's worth to almost $28 billion.
But the measure, which will start in the Senate, may not even be voted upon in the House, where Speaker Michael Madigan said a bill his chamber passed in May to make unilateral changes to retirement benefits was the right approach to address the state's nearly $100 billion unfunded pension liability.
CHICAGO, June 7- The big four-story house in suburban Pittsburgh might remind you of the set of "The Golden Girls." Karen Bush, Louise Machinist and Jean McQuillin bought the Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania, home together in 2004, when they were in their fifties.
NEW YORK, June 3- The California Public Employees' Retirement System registered to sell its 4 percent stake in Carlyle Group LP on Monday, one month after it moved to sell a quarter of its 8 percent stake in Apollo Global Management LLC.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 3- California State Treasurer Bill Lockyer said on Monday he would not campaign for statewide office in 2014 when his current term ends and instead would retire from elective office.
More than half the oldest boomers- those born in 1946- had fully retired by the end of the year in which they turned 66, the age the Social Security Administration pegs as "full retirement age," according to a new survey by the Metlife Mature Marketing Institute.
TOKYO, May 30- Japan's public pension fund- a pool of over $1 trillion- is considering a change to its portfolio strategy that could allow its investment in domestic stocks to grow with a rallying market, according to people familiar with the deliberations.
*Cuts would save $150 million a year. May 29- Bankrupt Patriot Coal Corp. can reject collective bargaining agreements, cease pension contributions and convert retiree healthcare to an outside fund as part of its plan to save $150 million a year in labor costs, a court ruled on Wednesday.
DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg says web traffic on his search engine, billed as an alternative to Google that doesn't store your private information, surged 33 percent after the NSA news broke. Weinberg discusses the model of his search engine, and how the company makes money.
Wednesday, 19 Jun 2013 | 6:31 AM ETJohn Silvia, Wells Fargo Securities, and Barbara Marcin, Gabelli Dividend Income Fund, discuss whether investors should reconsider allocating their portfolios as the Fed wraps up its two-day policy meeting.
Wednesday, 19 Jun 2013 | 8:53 AM ETKen Langone, Invemed Associates chairman and president, called Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke a "lame duck."