Pension Fund

Zach Carter

Wisconsin's Pension Fund Among Nation's Healthiest

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: State Budgets, Union-Bashing, Demonstrations, Madison Protests, Wall Street, Wisconsin, Pension Systems, Pension Fund, Scott Walker, Protests, Walker, Unfunded Liabilities, Unions, Pension Funds, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- While Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has painted a dire picture of his state's pension obligations, Wisconsin's pension fund for public...

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Man Kept Dead Mother's Body In A 'BACKPACK For Nearly A Decade'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tokyo, Pension, Elderly Citizens, Search for Older People, Centenarians, Pension Fund, Search for Japanese Centenarians, Japan, Ota Ward, Search for Japan Old People, World News

Investigators searching for missing Japanese centenarians in a well-publicized nationwide hunt made a particularly grisly discovery this week when th...

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Dan Froomkin

'Something's Got To Give': Massive Pension Fund Shortfalls Threaten To Bankrupt States

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: State Budgets, States Pension Funds, Pension Fund, Recession Pension Funds, Pension Fund Shortfall, Politics News

State governments have already been slammed by the recession, but there's an even more massive financial threat looming in the form of immense project...

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Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. Switched To Stocks Right Before Collapse

The Boston Globe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pension Losses, Pension-Benefit-Guaranty-Corp, Pension Fund, 44 Million Americans Pension Fund, Business News

WASHINGTON - Just months before the start of last year's stock market collapse, the federal agency that insures the retirement funds of 44 million Ame...

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Markets for Financial Crime

James Love | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bankruptcy, Crime, Investing, FInancial Markets, Pension Fund, 401k, Retirement, Pensions, Bernard Madoff, Business News
James Love

The lawyers and consultants that enable the fleecing of the public have vast incentives. We need to think more about the reasons why markets for honesty and consumer protection work so poorly.

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