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• SacBee: Dan Walters: California public pensions loom as big issue

  
  iePolitics.com — Authority: 520
  By Dan Walters dwalters@sacbee.com Published: Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 – 12:00 am | Page 3A Advocates of overhauling California’s troubled pension system for public employees couldn’t have chosen a more providential moment to launch their reform campaign. The huge California Public Employees’ Retirement System ...
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• PIMCO, AllianceBernstein Face Over Half A Billion In Calpers Redemptions; Weakness For High Yield Market Approaching

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 769
  Not a good day for PIMCO as Calpers continues scapegoating for its deplorable performance, and today the California Pension manager decided to trim its exposure to PIMCO. In doing so, Calpers slammed the Newport Beach firm for being too risk averse (watch out Bill, you know what happened to John Mack for being too ...
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• Calpers trims Pimco bond investments

  
  OC Business News — Authority: 416
  Bloomberg News reports this investment change involving Newport Beach bond gurus Pimco … The California Public Employees Retirement System, the largest U.S. public pension, is cutting by almost half what it invests in international and high-yield bonds managed by AllianceBernstein L.P. and Pacific Investment ...
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• CalPERS Takes Huge Hit to RE Portfolio

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 552
  CalPERS has taken a huge hit to its real estate portfolio according to The Registry.At the end of March, the pension fund placed a net-asset fair-market value on its real estate holdings of $17.6 billion. Three months later, the retirement system said the value had fallen by nearly a quarter to $13.4 billion.Amongst ...
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• LATimes: CalPERS’ image takes a hit

  
  iePolitics.com — Authority: 520
  Shrinking assets and the taint of ties to so-called placement agents threaten to erode the California Public Employees’ Retirement System’s reputation as a leader among public pension funds. CalPERS’ tarnished reputation By Tom Petruno and Stuart Pfeifer November 9, 2009 For much of the last decade the ...
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• SacBee: Editorial: CalPERS’ ties to middleman raise suspicions

  
  iePolitics.com — Authority: 520
  Published: Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009 – 12:00 am | Page 6E Rob Feckner, president of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System board, has asked his fellow trustees to stop meeting with placement agents. Cutting contacts with placement agents is the absolute minimum board members charged with protecting ...
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• Stuyvestant Town’s $3B Loan Goes to Special Servicing

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 552
  Not really news as the previous income and debt-coverage numbers revealed this asset is in a world of hurt, not to mention the hit it will take as a result of all the legal wrangling going on about rent controls. This is one big capital stack. Fitch has already reduced CMBS ratings on a number [...]
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• The CalPERS Crush Part 1

  
  Exurban Nation — Authority: 464
  The CalPERS financial bomb has gone off. The blast wave hasnt arrived to knock us all down is all. Revenues are falling further, unemployment is out of control. The UE fund is projecting a $23.7b deficit . Employers, who support the fund through a tax on each worker, are expected to contribute $4.3 billion this ...
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• SacBee: Legislation would rein in pension fund ‘placement agents,’ sources say

  
  iePolitics.com — Authority: 520
  By Dale Kasler dkasler@sacbee.com Published: Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009 – 12:00 am | Page 10A Top California officials, responding to media reports about possible outside influence on CalPERS’ investment decisions, are formulating legislation to tighten controls on so-called placement agents and restrict their fees. ...
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• Pension Reform Sham

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 573
  A proposed pension reform initiative, the Public Employees Benefits Reform Act (PEBRA), should die an early death and never see the ballot box. PEBRA gives state workers pension guarantees superior to private sector workers. It does nothing to fix the current pension mess. PEBRA does little to reform the generous ...
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• Public relations firms paid millions to teach us to love more taxes!

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 573
  C A L I F O R N I A C O M M E N T A R Y – A weekly opinion column from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers AssociationStop Giving Ammo to the Enemy, By Jon CoupalThe reported instances of waste, fraud and abuse of our taxpayer dollars are so common now, it [...]
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• Pension fighter vows renewed battle to alter retirement benefits

  
  The State Worker — Authority: 137
  Paul McCauley , the Southern California accountant who has authored several initiatives aimed at cutting public employee pension benefits , has responded to our inquiries after his latest measure failed to gain enough signatures to make the ballot. ( Click here to read the specifics of the McCauley Pension Recovery ...
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• LATimes: CalPERS board chief urges colleagues to steer clear of investment go-betweens

  
  iePolitics.com — Authority: 520
  PENSIONS Rob Feckner asks fellow directors not to meet privately with so-called placement agents while the public employees pension fund conducts an investigation of the intermediaries’ activities. By Marc Lifsher and Evan Halper November 6, 2009 Reporting from Sacramento – The board president of the ...
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• SacBee: CalPERS trustee shows check payment for Dubai trip

  
  iePolitics.com — Authority: 520
  By Andrew McIntosh amcintosh@sacbee.com Published: Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 – 7:48 am | Page 10A A CalPERS board member on Thursday produced a canceled check showing he paid $23,630 for a trip to London, Dubai and Hong Kong in 2006 after it was initially paid for by a Nevada businessman whose clients were seeking ...
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• SacBee: Ex-CEO at CalPERS accepted favor from placement firm boss

  
  iePolitics.com — Authority: 520
  By Andrew McIntosh and Dale Kasler amcintosh@sacbee.com Published: Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 – 12:00 am | Page 1A Last Modified: Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 – 9:36 am STATELINE, Nev. – When Fred Buenrostro, then the chief executive of California’s giant public employees’ pension fund, was looking for a place to get ...
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• CalPERS wins fit business award

  
  The State Worker — Authority: 137
  The California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness has given CalPERS a 2009 Silver Award for promoting a healthy workplace environment. According to the organizations Web site, "Winners were selected based on the breadth of their health and wellness programs; the quality and focus of their policies; the ...
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• Calpers Apollo Review Includes Direct Investment

  
  DealBook — Authority: 775
  The California Public Employees Retirement System, the biggest U.S. public pension fund, confirmed Wednesday that was reviewing its business relationship with Apollo Management, The Sacramento Bee reported.
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• Calpers’ appetite for risk

  
  Global Investing — Authority: 127
  Claudia Parsons of Reuters and Calpers Chief Investment Officer Joe Dear discuss the pension fund’s appetite for risk on CNBC, after a Reuters investigation into how Calpers is delving further into alternative investments despite suffering heavy losses. More on Calpers: Former Calpers CIO says did right ...
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• Land Deal Advisor Resigns From Calpers

  
  DealBook — Authority: 775
  The real estate investment manager who led the California Public Employees Retirement System, the nations largest pension fund, into a money-losing land venture has resigned as an adviser to the fund, a spokeswoman for MacFarlane Partners told Reuters on Saturday.
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• Q&A: Somer Hollingsworth

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
          Longtime Las Vegas resident Somer Hollingsworth is president and CEO of the Nevada Development Authority, but it seems his favorite pastime is getting under the skin of California leaders trying to prevent businesses from leaving that state. Hollingsworth, who grew up in Texas and went to school in ...
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