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Op-Ed: California’S Most Powerful Voice On Wall Street? Its Pensions, David H. Webber
Op-Ed: California’S Most Powerful Voice On Wall Street? Its Pensions, David H. Webber
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The fight over public pensions in California is almost exclusively described as a dispute between people worried about tax hikes and public servants wanting to get paid what they were promised. But this is only part of the pension story — one focused on the “liability” side of the balance sheet.
Public Pensions And Fiduciary Law: A View From Equity, T. Leigh Anenson
Public Pensions And Fiduciary Law: A View From Equity, T. Leigh Anenson
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Controversies involving fund management may be the next frontier of public pension litigation. Recent scandals involving fraud, bribery, and corruption of public pension officials and other third parties have drawn the public eye toward the management of retirement assets. Individual and entity custodians, including pension boards of trustees, are charged with making investment and other decisions relating to pension funds. Unlike private pensions, there is no federal oversight of asset managers or others in control of retirement funds. Yet these funds hold more than three trillion dollars in assets. Until now, the guardians of these monies have operated almost invisibly …